What is it about people

What is it about people

Who want clean-cut answers

When all the edges are blurred

Who forget patriots might love their country

But still may not be right

It is such a small world

To get lost in

Nothing good ever came of isolation

None of the hermits I ever knew

Could ignore the smell of a good breakfast

Even after a heavy night

There is something primal about bacon

Although not if it’s vegan

There is something fundamentally wrong

With vegetarian meat

What is it about people

Who become upset over what other people eat

If it is in moderation who cares

Gluttony is more than just about food

Some of the greediest people I know

Are skinny

What is it about people?

Celebrating independence

Or thanksgiving

When they can’t even agree about

The reality of an election

Or dispute the need for a constitution

When sad men use it to justify murder

Blinkered football fans

Praise the owners of their club,

When they contribute

To the slaughter of innocents

Who thought they were free,

Execute men for being gay

Call out ‘difference’ as deviant

What is it about people

Who think they are the only ones

To know the truth

When there is little of anything

That is ever really true

Believe me, I know and yes that is

A massive contradiction

But it is a perspective

I am prepared to stand by

Just for the sake of argument

What is it about people who would make

It ‘just so’

When the best we can hope for

Is an approximation.