We Can Make This Work Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

We can make this work.
To work it out.
Between you and me.
Our differences of beliefs,
To achieve an understanding...
Kept within our reach to keep,
To leave others...
With their opinionated to debate druthers,
And conflicts started to divide them apart...
As they hope what they discuss,
Is not about them but us from the start.

We can make this work.
To work it out.
Between you and me.
Our differences of beliefs,
To achieve an understanding...
Kept within our reach to keep,
We can do.
If we sit to listen with it to comprehend,
That others wish to see us in competition.
Knowing if we defeat one another,
We will leave them evidence to say they win.

We can make this work.
To work it out.
Between you and me.
There is no one else we need,
Observing to say...
They have a better way for us,
When their own backyards...
Have died from mistrust distrust and dusting rust.