Terza Rima

Is there a common good?
I would like to think my neighbors think like me
They want to live in a clean and safe neighborhood
How else could any other thoughts be?
How could it not be understood that our proximity simple
Is common enough, connection shouldn't be commonality
I am a shepherd I now know and understand why I'm crippled
I am a shepherd manipulating my psychology
Trying valiantly to distinguish between self and programming
Is it anthropology?
Is it nature that allows people to obscure the common good?
Do we owe ourselves an apology?
For believing that goodness could be commonly understood
My family lives next to our neighbor
Who only understands their family's survival, and should
The common good is abhorred
Because what is common is not at all
There isn't a common good to implore