Better Bygones

Cancel the cancel culture,
whether it comes from left or right
and, even when people disagree,
let the people listen more closely
to what they each disagree about.

Whether listening before we react
makes us act more slowly
or makes our disagreement
with others more entrenched
it should be survivable, 
unless the argument is some
zero gain/winner takes all sum
in which at no level of opinion
was never going to be shared,
when it was aired, anyway.

Bygones should, at very least, learn
how to be, and leave others to be, better bygones.
It is as near as peace and good will as we get.