The Same — A Poem by Ryker Dixon

JD Hogue
2 min readFeb 14, 2022

You, the unsatisfied friend (soft).

You, the unhappy friend (soft)

You, are the problem, I am the resolution (soft)

You, you are the harmful one, not the harmed. (loud)

You, you are the reason everyone is against you… (loud)

You, you and me aren’t so different… (loud)

I, I am the one who is satisfied (soft)

I, I am the one who is happy (soft)

I, I am the one of the many who think you are the problem, and think I as the resolution (loud)

I, I believe you are harmful, but enough you for you to be yelled at in every conversation (loud)

I, I am the one trying to help you, not hurt you (soft)

I, I have realized that now me and you are the exact same… (soft)

We, we are the misunderstood (loud)

We, we are the harmed (loud)

We, we are the betrayed (loud)

We, we are the strong (loud)

We, we are… (soft)

The Same (soft)

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JD Hogue

I am a statistician and a board-certified Music Therapist with two Master’s degrees: MS Quantitative Psychology and MM Music Therapy. www.jdhogue.weebly.com