Different Gifts

Different Gifts

For no good reason

that I can see...

 

my little dog woofs a warning—

telling me to come.

 

Come now!

 

Now. Now. Now

 

His eyes say:

 

Can’t you hear it?

Can’t you smell it?

Can’t you see it?

 

He doesn’t understand

our gifts are different...

 

No, I can't always hear, 

smell or see what he can.

 

Nor can he know what I know.

 

Nor can I know what you know.

 

Nor can you know what I know.

 

That’s the thing, you see.

We each have different gifts—

 

different points of view.

 

Doesn’t mean one is wrong,

the other right. Or vice versa.

 

I’m trying to explain this to my dog.

 

Haven’t had much luck 

explaining it to humans—

 

or even, sometimes, to myself.

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