Interactive
By Mark Sherrick

Why do I do this?
question often asked
yet never answered
why do I stand here
up in front of people
telling stories
telling things nobody needs to know
telling about me
when I know that
they don’t really care about me
or my life, or my stories
most don’t even know me
but they feel like they have to
acknowledge what I’m doing up here
by clapping or cheering regardless
of if they liked what they heard or not
Why am I doing this, and why do you do what you do?
I don’t know why,
                                      but it doesn’t matter to me
because I’m up here regardless
How about you?
                                                                                               Do you know?
                              I’d like to hear, 
                              if you do.