In uderstanding people I've a long way to go <br />And even those close to me that I think I do know <br />I do not know that well I've come to realize <br />The workings of Human Nature never cease to surprise <br />The words of a cynical one I recall <br />Everyone for themselves and God for us all <br />The one who first said that may seem a lesser light <br />But that person though cynical may have been right <br />A scientist or psychologist or psychiatrist in the World one could not find <br />Who would understand all of the workings of the human mind <br />My long standing friends with fondness I recall <br />Though I feel that I do not know them well at all <br />And when I dislike in my friends some of the things in them I do see <br />Those are the things that I do dislike in me.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-understanding-people/
