Unclear on the Concept

When someone disagrees with you
Their thinking seems to suffer
From a conspicuous flaw,
Though you realize that they are free
To disagree,
And concurrence is not a law.
Perhaps they just don't understand
But think, of course, they do
When they confuse the things that they believed
With things they think they knew.
They appear alert and rested
But you wonder if they have slept,
How could a person with a working mind
Be so unclear on the concept?

Agreeing to disagree
Is an agreement to cease disagreeing
While each person persists
In being quite certain
That reality is consistent
With their own view of seeing.
There is no real resolution
As no mind is changed,
Stopping the argument
Is the only solution
That saves or delays
The relationship
From being rearranged.
So under the carpet
The disagreements are swept
While each person wonders,
"How can he remain
So very unclear
On the concept?"

Perception is subjective,
To think otherwise is a distortion;
To believe that one is always 'right'
Displays a lesser portion
Of a mind that might be able
To entertain or even accept
That when another disagrees
They are not,
Necessarily,
Unclear on the concept.