Communication, interaction or an exchange of ideas <br />Are vital necessities for knowing what someone is really all about <br />To know their character, their weaknesses, their assets and their dreams <br />You must take the time to relate to them, to feel them and to hear their heart <br />You have to spend time talking to them, working with them and observing them <br />In what they say, how they respond, what they do, and even who they spend time around <br />You owe that to individuals you claim to know <br />You can’t base your treatment of them on the grape vine or what someone else said <br />Even though that’s how you get your information about people <br />Yeah, you ask everybody else about everybody else when you don’t really know everybody else <br />So how is it that you think you will get to know someone by asking someone else <br />What if they don’t like them and give a bad report or like them and give a false report <br />Have you even discerned who it is that you are asking <br />Have you taken the time to relate to them, to feel them and to hear their heart <br />Have you spent time talking to them, working with them and observing them <br />In what they say, how they respond, what they do and even who they spend time around <br />Because if you haven’t done these things and you asked someone else about me <br />All you’re going to get is their perception of who they think I am <br />Now that’s not fair to me <br />Chances are they haven’t related to me, felt me or observed me <br />In what I say, how I respond, what I do or even who I spend time around <br />Now ask yourself, do you really know me?<br /><br />Deidre Blair<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/do-you-really-know-me/
