Nice

Nice

You speak several languages

Earn more than my parents

Cause a lot of damage

Living many lives

Despite three mortgages

And your achievements

You're not a happy person

And there's so little time

To be nice 

To find where love's hidden 

To give without getting

Permission

To be nice without hope

Of being a winner

To find the something

Missing in your interior

Cynicism's easy 

But it's not charming

You get defensive

I know you're hurting

To see the worst in people

To always know how it ends

To feel superior when

It comes to facts

It leaves an emptiness in you 

That continues to expand

But to be nice

To leave it behind

To think twice

Taking heart over mind

To feel light

Free of the burdens 

Pressing down

On everything around you