If We Were All Alike

Our lives are unlike others

in fact they're our own.

It's good that we're not all the same

or how would we be known.

If we all looked and sounded alike

without our own little quirks.

Mistakes we'd make while with our friends

could make us appear as jerks.

You could be thinking it's Harry

while you're talking now to Jim.

Sharing all those common memories

that mean nothing at all to him.

It's not only in the way we look

but also the things that we like.

For without these differences that we have

we'd be eating the same things each night.

You see if we all really did think the same

we would suffer a limited view.

Without that encouragement from one another

we'd never try anything new.

Our lives would just continue

day after day.

Each one then being repeated

just like it was yesterday.

Be glad for all of our differences

and happy we're not all the same.

For if we were as this poem points out

our lives would truly be lame.