Looking deep in me these days <br />I understand that I’m different. <br />The difference now I understand <br />Has been in me ever, ever since. <br /> <br />Why I took this long to wade away <br />The pall of similar and the familiar? <br />This sense of difference I feel in me <br />Is the diminishing of margin I have. <br /> <br />I tutor me - a little naughty toddler- <br />And give lessons and reasons better. <br />He in his turn goes calm and cooler <br />As never before he knew it anymore. <br /> <br />When I understand a thing or two, <br />New and becoming, I understand me. <br />When I let one do it-a thing or two <br />New and becoming, I understand me. <br /> <br />None is different unless one understands. <br />What one understands is one’s difference.<br /><br />A. Jayaprakash Jayaprakash Panicker<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-understand-8/