Branches

We only have to climb
Onto the lowest branch
To quickly look down
On someone else

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I am grasping at branches
Trying desperately not to fall
And find myself
Actually your equal

I am letting go of my branches
Trying desperately to let ego fall
And know I am
Truly your equal

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How quick I can be sometimes to judge, to criticize, to belittle. Those subtle ways I treat others as less than. My quick reaction to their emotions that says come to me calm and then we can talk. As if my silencing of my feelings is better than their expression of theirs.