Poem: As It Has Always Been

As It Has Always Been

It is this way, and I will not think
of any other way it might be,
because it must be this way,
has always been that way,
has always been the way I have seen it,
so it must be that way, 
it would be wrong
for it to be another way,
it would mean I needed to care
about things I do not think about,
it cannot be that way,
cannot be any way
that makes me reconsider
myself, no, because I know
I am a good person,
it is not possible for me
to not be a good person, 
not at all, that cannot be,
so it must be that I am right,
because if I am not right,
I would have to rethink
how I have behaved
and whether I have caused harm,
but I know I am a good person,
it is not possible for me
to not be a good person,
so it must be this way,
as I have always known,
as I was taught
by the good people
who raised me,
who taught me the values
of what it is to be a good person
and how good people think
and act, and who it is
good people think about
when they consider
who is worth caring for.

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