In Two Minds

A dialogue between two parts of oneself at odds with each other

Although you’re out of sight I know you’re there.

Let’s form a coalition, both unite.

Oh no. We’d never make a well-matched pair.

You fight the left wing. I shall fight the right.

At least I take things in, regard advice,

Attempt to contemplate what others say.

What you take in I banish in a trice.

To ponder counsel never was my way.

My policy (original I trust)

Is ‘Listen, listen, listen! Hear men out!

We differ there. You listen if you must.

A listening ear is not what I’m about.

We’d best behave as one although we’re two.

Why can’t you be like me, act as my brother?

Don’t you see? I prove the adage true:

That what goes in one ear comes out the other.