Envy?~ By David I. Mayerhoff

How I envy the herd mentality
Up in the morning
Stoic and firm
To repeat yesterday 's activities
 
"This is what people do"
Up at 6, down the coffee
Commute through 8
Work by 9
 
Noise traffic and nothingness
Irrelevant
Bedlam, artificial " Good mornings"
Who cares?
 
Work that they find meaningless
What of it
Mindless chatter and argument
"This is life"
 
But is this life
Or is this an empty shell
Is this life
Or is this death without knowing it?
 
Is this death without knowing it
If you do not realize you are dead
In which case
Forever pity the living
 

Author Bio:
David I. Mayerhoff is a newly emerging writer while being a practicing physician and psychiatrist for the last 34 years. His areas of specialty are in Graduate Medical Education, the chronic mentally ill, and academic research with a focus on the heterogeneity of schizophrenia disorders. His current work involves caring for the mentally ill within the developmentally disabled population. Selected poetry of his can be found at drsyke.wordpress.com, allpoetry.com, poetry.com, as well as published selections at PoetryBay/ Long Island Quarterly and at the Paragon Journal and elsewhere. www.authorsden.com/davidmayerhoff 
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