I'm not like you

Hurt irritation with selfishness and pettiness

I don't see a target upon everyone's back
I'm too busy protecting my own from attack
I don't feel the urge to make people hurt or bleed
For me, at least, it is not a need
This desire for only the self I do not understand
Is it so very hard for you humans to extend your hand
Much easier, it seems, to escape through drug or drink
Though you wake up in the morning unable to think
With your money gone & you don't know where
Have some more & you don't even care
I can only ask why
Is it really worth the high
I've been told so, but do not care for the experience
I shall look elsewhere for my deliverance
I've been accused of being strange
So be it, then, I will not change
For I've watched you now for many years
And when I try to join you it only ends in my tears
So I shall withdraw from you humans again
And remain on the outside looking in