Love Ourselves

I have written poems
On love of family
Country and
Another,
And I believe to
Love and to be loved is
All there is to happiness.
Love is more than
Pardon or passion,
More than kind
Consideration
Or longing
For the
One
We
Desire.
Love is also
Treating others
As if they were our
Selves in another form
Unrecognizable with
Our head but clear
With the heart
Which means
Accepting
Their
View as
Valid for them
And resisting the
Temptation to
Lecture on
Their so
Clear
To
Us lack
Of common
Sense logic or
Reason just
The way
They
See
Us.
Lincoln’s
Words ring
True that you
Can fool all of the
People some of the time
And some of the people all
Of the time, but you cannot fool
All of the people all of the time,
Which is what is happening
Now in the media whose
Job is to keep liars in
Politics from trying
To fool the folks
They are in
Politics
To
Respect
And serve.
When faced with
A proven liar we
Should forgive
Them then
Impeach
Them.
Or
We will
Repeat the
Tragedy of our
Civil War when
We butchered
A million of
Ourselves
Rather
Than
Loving
One another
And using the
Vote to alter
Politics.