Unknown, Never Knew

PM MXXII

Unknown, Never Knew;

Why didn't you ever say,

why couldn't you bring yourself

to advertise the truth,

Peter Pan was fictional,

none of us are able to fly.

Rain does come from Heaven,

no need to spoil it using science and alchemy,

we all know what thunder and lightning

sound like,

why spoil it with facts and figures,

formulas that not only baffle

and mystify,

but begin that building of doubt in

the backs of heads

wondering what else is not

true and never was.

Santa Claus comes to all,

dictated by the economy,

not whether you've been good

all year, you could have told me that

I still would have tried to be good.

Honesty is the best policy

but it brings no guarantees,

all successful people are not honest

and honest people aren't always successful,

it wouldn't have taken long to

explain that one, nor to

convince me that honesty was still

a really good idea.

Why couldn't you have taken that five minutes

and set me straight on that?

Why didn't you ever tell me that;

the world can be an awful place,

that life isn't always fair,

that food isn't always fresh

and the air we breathe is dirty

beyond imagination.

Why didn't you ever tell me that;

we are always being watched,

that our opinion does not always

matter,

and that lots of good people

do really rotten things?

Why didn't you ever tell me that;

there is so much beauty in a leaf,

refining gasoline hurts the environment,

people looked out for themselves first,

and that going to church was more than

a moral obligation?

And why the fuck did you never tell me;

that boys could also be raped?

MCC