What Does it Mean? *** (Crit welcomed), rondeau Options

[JustDaniel]

What Does it Mean?

What does it mean to please someone?
Do anything to get along?
or should I work to understand,
befriend, and try to lend a hand?
At times, the process won't be fun.

What pleases God? Look to His Son.
Attend His Word; know right from wrong.
What's PC? No! Seek true peace, and
What does it mean?

Is there something that will atone?
Can we talk on the telephone?
To reconcile's no magic wand;
relationships have shifting sand.
Ask God to guide; don't act alone.
What does it mean?

© MLee Dickens'son 2014

[JustDaniel]

Hey, Larry

YOUR communication was very clear to me from your excellent comments and suggestions, and what you say here makes that even more clear.

Your interpretation is excellent, and the advice you see is absolutely correct....

but that underscores my failure to communicate, because that is not the message I was working at. I know that sounds absolutely weird, but it's true. The question mark in the second line is crucial. The idea is that doing anything just to get along is going too far. Since I didn't communicate that, all the rest of the poem falls apart. I don't see any way in getting across what I was trying to communicate using the current form. I can't make my intentions clear. I don't give up trying to communicate my thoughts, but I think this particular piece can't do it!

Thank you so much for your assistance, my friend.

deLighting in your ability, Daniel