WHY MUST IT BE?

  How many people are lonely tonight?
How many people are really uptight?
Discouraged by life --- filled with dismay
Wondering how they’ll get through each day.

Making it through --- then wondering why
For what it seems worth --- why do they try?
Why must we live in a world so sad,
Longing for things that can never be had?

Why must we struggle--- to find our way?
Why are we so easily, led astray?
If we only could see --- which way to turn,
Why is it so hard --- each lesson to learn?

Why must our hearts ache, with love unfulfilled?
Why can’t our longings ever be stilled?
Must we go on --- alone and so blue,
Can nobody help --- to see us through?

Just some kind words --- someone to care
Surely would help us, our troubles to bear.
Why do people ignore one another,
Why do they not, offer help to a brother?

Please tell me how --- if you know the way
To face this life another day.
For there are many --- just like me
Who can’t find their way --- can’t you see?

       Pearl E. Cain                  

Follow the “Golden Rule” and be kind to one another.