Those Who Wrong

This was our course: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick. ~ ​Alcoholics Anonymous,​ page 66.

A mile in another's moccasins
leads a mile along a compass course
or deep into two souls – the shoe owner,
the shoe wearer.
When I compare my insides
with your outsides,
we're both misread.
When we listen, feel with,
relate, we find kindred spirits,
souls hurting, needing solace,
solidarity... We find wronged people
we're apt to wrong
as long as we see footwear
and wearer
as soiled.