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# Take a Bath
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/take-a-bath/
- Published: 2021-10-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: we recognize our parents in our kids and resonate with heroes in our books we gossip about neighbors and our friends and know that politicians are all crooks it may be hard to say in rhyme, this simple truth remains s...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

we recognize our parents in our kids  
and resonate with heroes in our books  
we gossip about neighbors and our friends  
and know that politicians are all crooks  
it may be hard to say in rhyme,  
this simple truth remains sublime  
we're all in the same water all the time

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**Author notes:** wc 50 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2790607-Philosophy-in-Poetic-Miniature---Heraclitus