You Can't

Your perspective does not stand alone

By itself in a corner lifeless as a stone

But there you sit pompous and fake

In your arrogance, you make a great mistake

Your foolish assumption that the moon must align

With your orbit and center with your every whine

It is a very large world that we all live within

And to comprehend it all you will never even begin

So you must expand your understanding of all views

For each of us has had to pay both penance and dues

No person is an island unto himself or herself

And your disagreement will not put my mind on a shelf

There is so much that we can all learn from this diversity

So if I allow you to speak and you will allow me

We will all of us be so much the better off

If only you will attempt to listen rather than scoff.