NEVER CRITICIZE MY LIFE (new Poem)

NEVER CRITICIZE MY LIFE

You do not know what it is like

Don’t criticize circle of friends and family

We are just like you

Humble, simple

We love, we hate

We loathe, we love

We get jealous, fractious

Yes fractious of your lives

TRUTH

So never judge us like you judge us

We are just like you

On word comes to mind

FAKE

We all live it, breathe it

Day in, day out

Night and day

Oh yeah

So how much can you take it?

You know our fake, fake lives

We shuffle through life

We carry the burdens through life

Never knowing where to turn

They turn over and over

Turmoil turmoiling

We have had broken hearts

That has torn us apart!

Has the same happened to you?

Through and through

Did you grow, grow through it?

Make you stronger for longer

It did us!

Do you see us criticize you?

Wear those hoodies

I love my hoody

It is comfy, cozy

It keeps me warm

Still criticizing?

Head bent, eyes hidden

Not mine!

I love people watching

Watching, never judging

Just watching you all

I have a giggle and a little snigger

Oh how I just sit and watch

My hands holding my face

I get stunned and shocked

At the things I see and hear

Too much for my ears at times

Yes I shut them off

And my eyes to

I never wrote a book on life

Too complicated

We come, we go

We love, we hate

We berate

I watch those people tramping the streets

To their own city beat

Do we judge?

Do we nudge?

Do we stare, do we ignore?

Or do we feel sorry, pity for them?

Or just walk past their past

Their lives, their heartaches

Oh boy oh boy

That is heartache, heartbreak

So guys and gals

Never, ever

Criticize any one’s life

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

7^th January 2017

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