I Thought I Knew You

I Thought I Knew You

© by Bud Lemire on May 19, 2016

Why do people do, the awful things that they do

I search my memories, I thought I knew you

What made you do it, my friend?

Did your sanity, finally end?

I heard about other people, doing dreadful things

I guess somebody must have clipped your wings

As you sit there thinking in your jail cell

I wonder what it is that you'd tell

I wonder what made you do something so wrong

When I thought I knew you all along

It doesn't make any sense at all

You must have climbed over the wall

I didn't think any friend of mine could do that

Makes me wonder where you were at

Can it be that you were drinking

It doesn't excuse you for your poor thinking

Could it be a control issue you had

That turned you into doing something so bad

All these years I thought I knew you

Now I wonder, what it was I really knew

This is for a childhood friend of mine, who I

just found out recently is in jail for something

he did. It shocked me that he could do something

like what he did. When I hear of something like

this, it makes me wonder how anyone could do

something so awful. I guess we'll never know

the whys for why they did it, because we don't

think with their mind-settings. He's the one

who'll have to live with it, and the people he

hurt. Makes me realize I am so happy to be

who I am. Caring and sensitive to those around

me. I'd never want to hurt anyone.