to know how to be?

 too many of us

I think people are as nice as they know how to be,

within the game that is life,

unfortunately, too often,

people have been conditioned to deny the reality

of parts of themselves

and they don't quite realize 

many of the choices in a moment,

they might be hurting within themselves

and not know how to ask help of another,

let alone how to empower their imagination 

to empathize with the other,

they can then blunder about the board,

mistaking blundering movement

for what might help them actually move forward in the game,

they are clueless,

and Miss Scarlet gets away with the murder.

by Henry H. Walker

August  20, ‘24