All of Our Faces

The faces we show to those whom we know

are seen in the light of familiar...

clashes, it seems, are rare and extreme

we would not recuse, nor need an excuse

to share who we are and all of our views.

And yet there are those who may disagree

their thoughts are opposed to our own,

for not all we say is one’s cup of tea

and it’s hard to appease when they only see

  an excuse to decry and bemoan.

We are who we are, naysayers be damned

there are much bigger fish to be fried;

and those who don’t like it can just take a hike

for life is too short to be picked on or slammed

or ceding to snide reprimands.

The people who know us know who we are

they’ve walked on the same path we follow

they know what we’ve done, what we’ve overcome

accept us in spite of, or maybe because of,

   all of our sides, not just one.

© Ginny Brannan 2020