You’ll Never Know

A past that brings pleasure

and good luck. A future that

brings confusion and a bad temper.

Lost in a half-lit room that contains

half-lit people.

You’ll never know that being certain

of something you know nothing about

until the liquor is spilled, names are

dropped, and reputations are overturned.

With the second set of teeth,

you nibble on the glass and after

lifting the amber drink to the light,

swirling it, sniffing it, savoring it,

and then when the tongue’s supply

exceeds the brain’s demand, it wont

take your name off of the hit list.

You’ll never know that the body keeps

a multitude of interrupted minutes

and waste an opportunity of a lifetime

every hour until the life sentence has expired.

Closets full of nothing to wear.

Sexual activity that ranges

from weekly to weakly.

Turning right just to go left.

Graduating from college magna cum laude

and yet never learning to translate the diploma.

You’ll never know that some pursue to learn

and most never learn to pursue until a

simple problem is transformed into a

unproductive occupation.

An infant wakes up in the wee wee

hours of the night because it’s

recollection of spending hours in its

mother’s pool complicates things when

it’s forced to sit in the bathtub.

A youngster who is too old to be as

old as it is, is training adults on child

psychology. A teenager who is going

through a trying period-trying to avoid

study, and trying to avoid work will realize

in another life, the feeling of constant

admiration by people who don’t even

know it’s existence.

You’ll never know the decision was

reached before the debate began.

You’ll never yearn to know that love

in not only blind but also dumb.

You’ll never grasp that bad habits are

indulged by other people.

You’ll never recognize nature’s

withdrawal from birth as you

prepared to enter the world and it

couldn’t find a mother ready to

take care of you.

You’ll never know.

You’ll never know.

You’ll, never know