I Don’t Understand
(Chuck's Rant)
I don’t understand
How people can always
Immediately see the negative
Of every situation
I don’t understand
How there are some people
Who never ever smile
Even when hearing the funniest joke
I don’t understand
Why women allow their men to abuse them
When there are other men
Willing to treat them like queens
I don’t understand
How a parent can abandon their child
When being a parent
Is the most rewarding action ever
I don’t understand
How white women can be racist
When less than 100 years ago
They couldn’t vote either
I don’t understand
Why I wake up at 7 o’clock in the morning
On the Saturday of a 3 day weekend
And can’t go back to sleep
I don’t understand
Why despite my best efforts
People would rather hold on to their judgements of me
Rather than ask me a simple question
I don’t understand
Why the guilty aren’t punished more
While the innocent suffer
In silence
I don’t understand
Why it takes so long
To get a woman in bed
But only a second for her to get out
I don’t understand
Why there are stupid people on this earth
Can’t we just shoot them
Or at least send them to Antarctica
I don’t understand
Why people go on Jerry Springer
Get naked and fight and tell all their business
I like it, but I don’t understand
I don’t understand
Why in the 21st Century
People still don’t have enough to eat
And a place to live
I don’t understand
Why there are all these angry poets
Yelling and screaming on TV
Trying to out perform the poet that came before them
I don’t understand
Why so many people try to justify their physical appearance
And asking us to accept them for who and what they are
When it is clear they haven’t accepted themselves
I don’t understand
Why some people think
That God’s last name is Damn
But get upset when you get their name wrong
I don’t understand
Why I am supposed to call myself
African-American
When I don’t know where in Africa my people came from
I don’t understand
Why people think the Egyptians
Who built the pyramids were white
Do they even know where Africa is?
I don’t understand
Why fat women only want to date skinny men
But then get upset
If you suggest they lose weight
I don’t understand
Why so many Christians
Think God only belongs to them
When most of them don’t know God themselves
I don’t understand
Why it is so easy to sin
But so hard not to sin
And why sin was created in the first place
I don’t understand
How it is so easy for people to say
"I love you"
But so hard for them to show it
I don’t understand
Why I sit here day after day
Looking for answers
When I am not even sure I know the questions
I don’t understand
Why my friends complain to me
About their husbands and wives
But never tell me why they stay with them
I don’t understand
Why someone always has a complaint
About everything
But rarely a good thing to say about anything
I don’t understand
Why I don’t understand
Why I can’t understand
And why I might never understand
Can anyone help me understand?
Chuck Smoot
May 25, 2003
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