Average Craze

There had been a time not that long ago.
When a keeping intentions simple.
Avoided conflicts.
And many to have lived,
To experience growing older.
Remember these times.
Now gone to know,
What it was to mean to say 'hello'.
Done without expecting a doing of it,
Anyone would find offensive.

Yet we are living in times,
People are seeking...
A right to protect their suspicions.
Of anyone they suspect.
Overdoing a respect to others given.
Just to victimize another.
And with a doing to prove it shown,
Anyone can be picked to deceive.
Hoodwinked and tricked.

'You obviously don't know what time it is.
Do you?'

'Sure.
Of course I do.
Hold on a sec.
It's close to noon.'

'I don't mean that.
You don't know me to say 'hello'.
What do you take me for?
Some kind of freak?
Out on the streets soliciting?'

'Uh...no.
However these days I will admit,
Keeping things simple...
Can begin to start a conflict.'

'I apologize.
Immediately I thought,
You were one of those...
Peace on Earth.
Joy and happiness spreaders.
Only to discover later,
Them to be the biggest hypocrites.'

'All I wanted you to have,
Was a good day.
And that was it.'

'Well, why didn't you say that?
That to say would have been enough.
Instead of using trite code words.'

'Code words?'

'Yeah.
Like...
How are you doing?
Hello and that meaningless nonsense!'

'An average craze,
Seems normalized these days.'

'Oh?
So now you're calling me a racist?
Or a bigot?
You don't know that about me.'

'Hello.
Goodbye.
And enjoy your day.'

'Sure.
Sure.
Leave me to feel the fool.
I happen to know more about reality,
Than you do.'

'Thank you.
There is still so much,
I have yet to learn.
Life to live moves so fast.
I am there in the past.
Valuing to treasure,
Gone not to notice...
What was once a value,
Today has been trashed.'

'Whatever.
Call me what you will.
But my trash to value is treasured.
And some folks talk about,
How good it was to have it yesterday!
As if today it's not better had to have it.

Old folks.
And their fictioned to delude,
A simple to live it life in denial.'