When I walk down the street
with a frown on my face
you grab your bag a little tighter
Your eyes tell.
They say how you want to cross to the otherside.
Your eyes tell.
They say how you silently pray that I might
so you dont have to.
Holding your breath
you dont cross
you dont even blink
You pass me by without saying a word.
Society says that if you did
If you admitted to it
If you confessed your fear
Then infact
you
are one of the bad people
Why is it so
When I walk down the street
with a smile on my face
you grab your bag a little tighter
Your eyes tell.
They say how you think it is weird
somewhat even strange.
Society stipulates that
a person who smiles when not watching TV
Not listening to something funny
or smiling outside any of the prescribed
and detailed rules
must be crazy
In our politically correct
logical
rational
and highly existential society
Where the true intellectuals have the answers
(and have had them since birth)
to all the worlds problems.
Only their:
music
movies
and literature (and anything else they like)
are worthy to even be called such
In our society where complaints and sarcasm
replace prayer and praise
backbiting is common place
temper tantrums after the age of five is completely acceptable
lashing out at someone for something they had nothing to do with
simply because
they were there
is very ok
In our society where there is no belief in any God or Gods
and if there was any
we as humans are self-sufficient enough now
to not have any
need
or
use
of him, her, or them
Our society says
Only a crazy weirdo
smiles at you for no reason.
Most likely because they are about to do something
something crazy and weird
Why is it so
because your eyes do infact tell
you very much think
Im the weirdo
Walking Weirdo by Christopher F. Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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