"Who Is Anyone?"

[alapokeygirl]

"Who is anyone?"

Who is anyone?
Are most people basically the same?
Showing one face in front of others, but someone totally different inside?
All happy and smiles on the outside, but in darkness and dispair on the inside?
Is there anyone out there truely happy?
Or does everyone put on a front?
To be a fun person to be around, but not good enough to be let into their own little world?
Good enough to be a friend, but not good enough to be a lover?
True loneliness is being the one who everyone wants to be friends with, but no one wants to be your lover.

November 2003
CherokeeSqaw

This is just a sample of what I write about. I also have a "few" happy ones, but those will come more in time, when I am happy enough to write them.

[suitemichelle]

Very nice........ Share some more sometime.

[mangrovejane]

I love your poem Ala. Poetry is great for getting to the heart of things and understanding truth. Hope you don't mind but I thought I might share one of my favourites with you even though I didn't write it myself. It gives me perspective when I have none.

"A columbine student once wrote:
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers,
Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints;
we spend more but we have less; we buy more but enjoy it less,
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences but less time;
We have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgement;
More experts, but more problems; more medicine but less wellness.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living but not a life; we've added years to life but not life to years
We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour.
We've conquered outer space but not inner space; we've cleaned up the air but polluted the soul;
We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.
We have higher incomes, but lower morals; we've become long on quantity but short on Quality.
These are the times of tall men and short character, steep profits and shallow relationships.
These are the times of World Peace but domestic warfare; more leisure but less fun; more kinds of food but less nutrition. These are the days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.
It is a time when there is much in the shop window and nothing in the stockroom;
A time when technology can bring this invitation to you and a time when you can choose to either make a difference...or just hit delete..."