HOW ARE YOU?

How are you?
You ask how I am?
I am left,
Standing there,
Confused.
When I say,
how I’m really feeling,
To you,
You stand there,
Listening,
Taking in,
Every word,
but,
then after,
You teach me a lesson.

How are you?
Is purely just a greeting,
A gesture,
as so to speak.
Not that you care,
or don’t care,
But that you don’t want,
All the minute details,
It is more a passing comment.
To start another conversation,
Or to greet you but not to go on.
Into your life’s story, or current situation.

So why do you ask? I say.
When you really,
Don’t want to know…
Just out of politeness,
As a token of mutual understanding,
That you are thought of,
At that moment,
In time,
but,
No further,
To go into a lengthy conversation.


So next time you ask,
How are you?
Do you really,
want to know,
The answer?
The short?
Or,
Long version?
Of my,
Current feelings,
As to me,
It is,
A question,
but,
From this lesson,
I have learnt,
To keep it short,
and ask,
Do you mean
How are you?
Or
How are you?
as in,
Are you okay?
and How are you?


So,
The next time,
You ask someone,
Those 3 little words,
Please understand,
Why they might,
Be kept short.

How are you?
What do these words mean to you?

For me,
How are you?
Is different,
Translation,
Then what,
How are you?
May be to yours.

-I hope to hear your truth,
When I ask,
You,
Next time,  
How are you?

© By HF-Whisper
11/8/2020 20:19PM