If I Were You...

   

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PAD challenge day 14; write an 'If I Were' poem

If I were you, then I would be

That person in my life with me

And I would need to see and hear

The ‘me’ I am to you, my dear

If I were you I’d come to know

The person from the outside so

I wonder if I’d be okay

To hear only the things I say

If I were you right next to me

Would I enjoy my company?

Or would I find a quick excuse

To rush away…an age-old ruse

If I were you would I call me

To share life over cakes and tea?

Or would I grumble inwardly

To spend an afternoon with me?

I think I’d learn a thing or two

If for one day I would be you

I wonder what my thoughts would be

If I were you instead of me

© Janet Martin

ugh! self-examination is brutal!  

'sometimes I wish you could hear yourself' I was told this week-end...and I know its true; ' that which I would do I do not and that which I would not, that I do! oh, wretched man that I am...'