What do you mean

What do you mean
When you say
He wasted his life?

He lived as he wanted,
He did good things and was
A good man

What do you mean
When you say his loss was a tragedy?

What do you mean when you say He?

Who was this man?
This Saintly, stubborn ass
Who wouldn’t listen to the people who loved him?

What do you mean 
When he had a problem?


What does that problem entail?
Do I share his problem?


Am I He?


I am not he.

I am not he,
Yet I seem to be laying in his casket.