By Ali
Date: 12 January 2001
Who Knows....
Sometimes I wonder
What makes people tick
What makes them do
The things they do
What makes one person
Care
And one person not?
What makes one person
Mean
What makes another
Kind?
It seems the more
Life goes on
The more cruel
People get
And I'm tired
Just tired
That's all
I can't do anything
About it
All I can do
Is be myself
The rest is up
To everybody else
And I guess that
Is what scares me
Because people are
Unkind
More often
Than not
Or at least
That's how
I see it
Because you only know
What you've been taught
One way
Or another
And I've been taught
That people hurt you
When you least expect it
And usually you never
See it coming
And when I'm hurt
As I am
It seems so often
Lately
I still try to find
Reason
For it
But there's no reason
For unkindness...
And if there is
I just don't see it...
I guess I just don't
Understand...
Who knows if I
Ever will
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