We are always asked
To understand the other person's viewpoint
No matter how out dated
Foolish or obnoxious

One is asked to view
Their total error their life-waste
With kindliness
Especially if they are aged
But age is the total of our doing
They have aged badly
Because they have lived
Out of focus, They have refused to
See

Not their fault?

Whose fault? Mine?

I am asked to hide my viewpoint
From them for fear of their
Fear

Age is no crime

But the shame of a deliberately
Wasted life
Among so many deliberately
Wasted lives

Is