When Marx said that
we need revolutions
to create a world
better than his,
did he know that
people would not
understand him at all?

When Nietzsche said that
we should want to be
a better person and should
try to strive to be the
best you can be, reaching
our übermensch,
did he know that
people would not
understand him at all?

When Plato said that
people should study
fifty years and in no way
have a family
to become the leader
of a society,
did he know that,
people would not
understand him at all?

When I see people talk
I try to listen and
am often baffled
because the words
they use feel
so erroneous

When I talk
I see people,
who try to listen
but are more than often
flabbergasted,
because the words
I use
are fallacious

And I think
Plato, Nietzsche and Marx
help elucidate
that words feel and sound
different in your own head
in my head

and I know
that I don’t understand it
at all.