How Are You?

How Are You?

You ask- how are you?

I say- I'm fine.

But do you really care how I'm doing?

Did you say it to be polite?

Was it just a greeting?

But the real question is

Am I really fine?

What is fine anyway?

It would be better if you didn’t ask

‘Cause both of us know you don’t really care

But if you ask me again,

I would know that you really want to know,

Then it’s not just a greeting

How are you?

But before I answer,

Why do you want to know how I'm doing?

Why are you so interested?

Would you like me to ask you how you're doing?

Ask me a real question.

When you ask me how I’m doing,

I won’t tell you that I’m very uncomfortable with that question!

That that’s the most difficult question you could ask me!

That I wasn’t taught to be okay with people asking questions of concern!

That I think it’s not your problem what my problem is!

That I don’t think you can handle how I’m doing!

How am I doing?

Well, if you really must know,

I am scared, I am misunderstood.

How I’m doing?

I have a pain on my right shoulder

I got hit by the husband when I felt a little bolder

I have a limp, I’m struggling

I’d like to strangle him

How am I doing?

Not too bad, the house has not burned down

At least not yet

I can still afford a meal without having to beg or steal

But I’m smarter than that

I won’t tell you that

Because I still think you don’t care about that

So instead when you ask me

How are you?

I’ll probably tell you where I’m going instead or where I came from

Cause that’s what you’re prepared to hear

Or the first option is to say

“I’m doing well!”

With a smile