Over and over again

People show us over and over again

exactly who they are, and we look away

the first hundred times or so, because

it's easier to look at someone and see

what we want to see, instead of what's 

really there. That's okay. But one day

you'll realize that life is too short to keep

looking away. Take a long hard look and

see what they show you the first time. 
That's who they are. Believe it.

~Stephanie Bennett-Henry