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Warren D asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 9 years ago

Why are some people so mean?

Why?

By Warren E. Domke

Why are some people so selfish and mean?

“It’s my way, not your way, nothing in between.”

Why?

Why must they hate and try to cause pain?

“I’ve nothing to lose, and everything to gain.”

Why?

Do they draw comfort from other folks’ tears?

“Why should I care? I don’t even like my peers.”

Why?

Why do some murder and injure and maim?

“If I’m going to suffer, I wish you the same.”

Why?

No reason, no answers, just silence I fear.

“Your pain is your pain, for you I’ve no tear.”

Why?

My life has been long, I laugh and I love.

And I look to the angels and to God up above.

That’s why.

And I’m grateful for every moment of life.

I’m happy for peace, and times without strife.

That’s why.

If tears I must shed, let them be tears of joy.

If people must notice, please smile, not annoy.

That’s why.

I wish you the same as I would have my life be,

A span of many decades, with horizons to see.

That’s why.

Please join me, I’ll offer my outstretched hand.

A band we will be, but I’ll hope it a happy band.

That’s why.

We’ll smile, we’ll sing, we’ll heal, we’ll caress.

We’ll share the joy, share the care, no more and no less.

We’ll live, we’ll laugh. With never a sigh,

Never a protest, no, not an excuse, just to get by.

We’ll make this world better, you, you all, us and I.

So all can be happy. And that, friends, is why.

(This was inspired by the untimely death of a friend of mine, murdered by a person he was trying to help. He was a pillar of our community, a good man. I’m trying to find something good in his passing, and I think I might have found it.)

Update:

Sometimes we begin what we write with little passion and little feeling, and as the words flow the passion grows. And sometimes when this happens our words and our words take flight. This was how this felt. I hope it comes across in that way.

Update 2:

The person he was trying to help died a short time afterwards from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His body was not immediately located, but was found about two days after the murder. There are many unanswered questions about the how and why concerning this crime. We may never have even the most important answers and will never have all of them. In the meantime a man who had so much more to give has been taken away before he could even give voice to the other things he wanted to do. But through the good things he was able to do, he lives on.

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  • 9 years ago
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    Warren, this is something that is on my mind almost constantly. I have some ideas about the why. It begins with maltreatment when very very young, with a series of insurmountable odds against fulfillment of basic dreams. It continues with social outcasting, further drifting into a sea of confusion, these individuals too asking why? Why does no one care? Why can't I be loved like they are? And the wedge between goes wider and deeper...we may group these fallen beings into groups like murderers, thieves, false friends, liars, traitors, terrorists- but they are at some point savable, but no one tried. Jared Loughner killing the AZ congresswoman, the recent movie release shootings, Columbine... PEOPLE NOTICED THINGS WRONG WITH THESE kids beforehand but they did not try to investigate what it could be. We have learned to distrust, stifle or deny the instincts and intuitions that we have carried in us since the species stood upright. Else the dang marketers would not have been able to lead us into the greedy and wasteful consumerism that makes the 2% what they are and is now breaking the economic structure down to poorer and poorer, numbers increasing.

    The huddled masses are preying on their own. There is a great sense of apathy which is contagious and deadly. The thing is, when we utilize extrasensory processes, we are doing a lot of preventing what could happen, and therefore it cannot be proven that anything was done at all. THAT is the quantum mechanics at work the wave/particle duality will someday be further understood and will explain the science of this. I do an awful lot of this kind of thing and of course by the standards of the material world it would appear I have not achieved anything of value; I may struggle all my life for the

    basics I need for my own comfort materially speaking.

    I have priceless beads of interlocked conceptual synapses locked in for eternity. You have just added a pivotal bead. I send a bit of my essence to your friend, through you- and on to mu daughter to find him in the aethers and lead him to the place we will all be HOME after the passing of earth's sun into nova. Bless your well-written poem and your well-learned heart. You are a good man, and I hope there is a return to that in the new generation. The soldiers and vets that I know all seem to share the qualities that you possess.

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  • 9 years ago

    Hi. Warren your poem is very sad, and i'm so sorry to hear, that bad news, My Condolence to your friend, and His families, May He R.I.P, Sometimes bad things happened to God people, and God does not make any mistakes, things happened for a reason, It's a shame that some people do not have any self control, nor decency. May God strengthen and grant peace to his family and your self. Be well my friend.

  • 9 years ago

    No need to feel pain, your friend is still there, all around you---your vip guardian angel.

    As for the other person, he will learn, but time is needed for that person to come around to understanding true value of life. Period.

    Sorrow for your loss, but hope shines daily.

    Be at peace, Warren.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Godspeed to this good man.May God grace his family with strength and healing.

    May you find God's purpose in this tragedy, Warren.

    Remember, good cannot exist for the mortal psyche without evil being juxtaposed to define it. It is this supernal mirroring that instructs and enlightens us.

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  • 9 years ago

    That was amazing, this is good enough for a book, I would read this anytime. I'm very sorry to hear about your friend, that is very sad. I love them poem. It made me feel something inside.

    Thank you.

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    5 years ago

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    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    Rest in peace ... to your friend ... Amen.

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