When I love I love deeply
Yet I'm hated

When I give I give freely
Yet I'm hated.

When I smile and say I love you
I hear your reply, but in your eyes
I hear I'm hated.

I am clueless why. Why oh why
Am I hated.

Am I fool who doesn't know
Am I a fool who can't tell why he is hated
Or am I a fool who just goes with the flow
Not wanting to look in the mirror
Afraid to know.

Am I blind to my wicked ways
Can I not see how my very existence
Paves the sickness of everyone's day.

Do I view myself as a righteous dove
But in reality I am everything below
And nothing above.

Why am I hated
Please tell me so
Before I leave this earth
And all my chances go.
© George Jodan