"Unpopular Opinion", Don Shiau
How to understand — our opinions
are those of people we like,
more often than we’d like
to admit. We think we are thinking
when we are merely growing
towards our chosen suns.
How to explain — when none
like to hear? I won’t. You will
discover this as I did:
in cracks
spreading round your roots
as you stretch for that light
even as I strain to be liked
so that others may nourish me
with such unseeing agreement.