AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Assumptions

I thought I understood
What you meant,
But I didn’t.

I thought you meant
That I didn’t know
What I was doing,
But you didn’t.

Then I reacted to
What I thought you meant,
Even though you didn’t.

You thought I was being critical,
Though I wasn’t,
And I reacted to your defensiveness,
All because I didn’t understand
What you meant.

It went downhill from there.
So much for ignorant assumptions.

Please forgive me.

Donnel Lester
November 2004