We’ll Fall

Can we rewrite in real time
the rules of this arrangement,
the way that we engage with
all the people we call strangers?

Perhaps we’ve more in common
then we’re often told to believe.
Perhaps we’d figure that out
if we’d stop judging and just speak.

But oh, we only listen 
to find space to interject
instead of just listening
to provide space to understand.

To understand all the things 
we don’t understand at all.
We must choose to comprehend
or comprehend we’ll fall.