When It isn't You

You are taught that if two people say you're drunk, you lie down.
But that isn't reality.
Because two or ten or twenty people can say it, but you haven't
had a drink.

I've always given chances, because I've always kept open the
possibility that I could be wrong.
I could misunderstand.
I could misattribute.

The weird part is that I haven't.

Exactly what I assumed in 1972 is true.
What I perceived in 1983 was confirmed.
What I feared in 1996 proved accurate.

There is no way to say; "It's me." I'm at fault.