Poem: Understand This

How we long to be understood…
To be known by another human being.
How difficult it is for us to transcribe
Those confusing thoughts and feelings.

For when I am accepted for who I am…
For once, I feel safe to be ME!
So tired with your frivolous games…
Shall I proceed to retreat into my shell?

In the first week, we would be enamoured.
By the next month, I would feel a sudden alienation…
Please do not say ”I had a busy week!"
For it would only increase my exasperation!

Learn to understand this…
This is the inner voice crying out in all of us.
That deeper need of understanding and acceptance
Of who we are and what we can become…

momoko (3.12.2000)

More women are complaining about their men who failed to understand their dispositions.
They continue to seek acceptance and love from anyone who is willing to take more steps in learning about them. These women resign themselves to the fate of being misunderstood or even ignored. A male friend once told me that a man would need to fight fiercely with his mind in order to allow his heart to listen for once! My heartfelt sentiments exactly!