Do you piss off your neighbor?
Will you slap her in the face?
You know just what she doesn't like,
What will bring her deep disgrace.
Can you insist your ways are right?
That hers are always wrong?
Or can you just for once admit
We each sing our only song.
She sets herself on fire
When offenses flutter by.
No matter what we try to do
Her tempers flit and fly.
Is it we who light the flames?
Showing her herself?
Can we then extinguish them?
Keep the matches on the shelf?
The fight was always bound to come.
You can't avoid the fall.
When narrow minds decide to fight
You're up against a wall.
So don't enrage your neighbor's heart.
Don't put her life in flames.
Keep your boastful righteousness.
Call you sin by no other name.
Will you slap her in the face?
You know just what she doesn't like,
What will bring her deep disgrace.
Can you insist your ways are right?
That hers are always wrong?
Or can you just for once admit
We each sing our only song.
She sets herself on fire
When offenses flutter by.
No matter what we try to do
Her tempers flit and fly.
Is it we who light the flames?
Showing her herself?
Can we then extinguish them?
Keep the matches on the shelf?
The fight was always bound to come.
You can't avoid the fall.
When narrow minds decide to fight
You're up against a wall.
So don't enrage your neighbor's heart.
Don't put her life in flames.
Keep your boastful righteousness.
Call you sin by no other name.
I came across this in one of my journals. I wrote it when the video came out about the Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, and the Muslim world errupted. I'd forgotten about it.
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