Choices Made Alone Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Ridicule and intolerance of others is only bad
judgment on their parts and has nothing to do
with anything that we have done.

Always wondering how some people can be so mean-
spirited and cruel, makes me wonder what has
happened to them in their younger days.

What could have caused this inflection of in-
justice that they choose to perpetrate upon all
others.

Never knowing the true reasons, just looking at
them with pity in my heart, because they don't
realize what they do to others less fortunate.

Maybe they do know and just don't care, their
reasons never will be known, it's just a choice
that they themselves make alone.