SOME THINGS I STILL DON'T KNOW

It’s true what a wise one once said…how the older and older we grow the more and more we learn…the less and less we know. I don’t know why there still are wars…why there is famine poverty and strife. I don’t know why one human…would ever take another human’s life. I don’t know why we as humans cannot get along. I don’t know thy the weak among us can’t be cared for by the strong. I don’t know why there is hate and bigotry…why some people cheat and lie. I don’t know why innocent children and babies have to die. Thankfully, however, The list of things I don’t know is not limited to the wicked, sad and vile: I don’t know why a baby’s laugh always makes me smile. I don’t know how there can be so much beauty in the sky, the sea…the land. I don’t know why it feels so good to hold another person’s hand. After watching so many sunrise and sunsets I don’t know how they can still surprise. I don’t know how tears of joy and sorrow flow from the same well in my eyes. I don’t know how to explain love…how it can take a broken heart and heal it. I don’t know where love comes from…I only know it…when I feel it. I don’t know why I make wishes under the moon or upon a falling star. I don’t know why we don’t tell each other more often…how beautiful we are. I don’t know why a life filled with so much joy and happiness has it’s share of sorrow and sadness too Hopefully these are things I might come to know before my time is through. In the meantime I’ll keep searching for joy wherever in life I go… In the unexplained In the undiscovered In all the things I do not know.