Complementary

Other people’s lives are always
Different from our own.
That goes for strangers and for those
We know or once had known.

There may be similarities
Or even common threads,
But age and time might take those bonds
And slice them into shreds.

Those differences, though, won’t preclude
Relationships or trust,
For what is complementary
Is often quite robust.

So though we never should compare
How we and others live
We should rejoice in what we share
And take as well as give.