Legalisms

Just like All the Others

 

What do you see in others?

It is not as though you’ve come back from hell,

Life has always been kind to you.

Do you respect another’s will that much,

And its exercise done freely?

Indeed you can’t expect others to behave predictably.

All you want is to see them pursuing their ends.

It never mattered, if, in their pursuit,

Men end up, stepping on and harming one another,

Their grief amuses and feeds you.

Don’t you find that strange?

Can’t you look onto others with compassion?

But you are like them too,

Neither do you act predictably,

So too do you have free will,

And you live with its consequences,

And that is what makes you just like all the others.