There were others before you..

Some fair some dark some both

light and lively

Some gloomy some doomy

Some sick some healthy

Some happy some not

Some cold some mean some loving some hot

There were some who smiled inwardly at the beauty of life

And some who didn’t like the thought’

Of being a wife

Some rough

Some needy

Some giving

Some poor

Some rich

Some chaste

Some begging’

For more

But in the end

There was nothing

There was nothing to do

Because what

They had in common

Was that

None

Of

Them

Was

you