You’ll Never Know
You really never know.
A past that brings pleasure
and good luck. A future that
brings confusion and a bad temper.
Lost in a half-lit room that contains
half-lit people.
You’ll never know that being certain
of something you know nothing about
until the liquor is spilled, names are
dropped, and reputations are overturned.
With the second set of teeth,
you nibble on the glass and after
lifting the amber drink to the light,
swirling it, sniffing it, savoring it,
and then when the tongue’s supply
exceeds the brain’s demand, it wont
take your name off of the hit list.
You’ll never know that the body keeps
a multitude of interrupted minutes
and waste an opportunity of a lifetime
every hour until the life sentence has expired.
Closets full of nothing to wear.
Sexual activity that ranges
from weekly to weakly.
Turning right just to go left.
Graduating from college magna cum laude
and yet never learning to translate the diploma.
You’ll never know that some pursue to learn
and most never learn to pursue until a
simple problem is transformed into a
unproductive occupation.
An infant wakes up in the wee wee
hours of the night because it’s
recollection of spending hours in its
mother’s pool complicates things when
it’s forced to sit in the bathtub.
A youngster who is too old to be as
old as it is, is training adults on child
psychology. A teenager who is going
through a trying period-trying to avoid
study, and trying to avoid work will realize
in another life, the feeling of constant
admiration by people who don’t even
know it’s existence.
You’ll never know the decision was
reached before the debate began.
You’ll never yearn to know that love
in not only blind but also dumb.
You’ll never grasp that bad habits are
indulged by other people.
You’ll never recognize nature’s
withdrawal from birth as you
prepared to enter the world and it
couldn’t find a mother ready to
take care of you.
You’ll never know.
You’ll never know.
You’ll, never know
About the Creator
LaSharndra Clark
I am a middle class Car Dweller with a decent job who gave up her house to live in her car once both of her kids grew on to college.
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