How Come It Always Has To Be This Way Poem by Francis Duggan

Why do it always have to be this way
I don't like him or her they don't like me
I get involved in the mind games people play
And my own weaknessess i fail to see.

How come that i dislike that other man
Since he has never did no wrong to me
And why i don't like him i don't even know
And yet i treat him as an enemy.

We dislike in others what we see in ourselves
A wise old woman to me once did say
And though that was many, many years ago
Her words i still remember to this day.

The faults i have i tend to overlook
And i judge others as if it were my right
But i don't have God given right to judge
And my darkened soul 'twould seem receives no light.

As i grow older i feel more withdrawn
And with myself i tend to disagree
I question the strange ways of humankind
And i even question my own sanity.

How come it always has to be this way
I don't like him or her they don't like me
I get involved in the mind games people play
And my own weaknessess i fail to see.