If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us. ~ Hermann Hesse

Irritation at behavior rankles,
aggravates, unhinges.
Why something others think innocuous
should propel me to derangement,
I don’t know. I would never act so!
And then I do. And little by slow
I come to understand. God show my faults
to me by putting others with that flaw
into my life. When your actions anger me
it’s caused by my secret flaws
mirrored back to me in yours.