Why?

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?
Why value progress, push for change and be told you will go from there when it was all just a lie?
Why become the best you've ever been just to be told that what you were is still more important than who you are?
Why have a dream? Why fight when you're told you're never going to deserve it?
Why atone for your mistakes when that is all you're judged by?
Why is it that when I can look past someone's mistakes and see the value, the love, the life in them but they refuse to accept the condition I am living with and see me for the progress I have made, for the man I've become?
Why work to make yourself valuable to everyone again, to make yourself the man you need to be only to be thrown away like common garbage?
Why love perfectly when they only appear to love you on the surface?
Why make promises and then deny the truth?
Why lie to yourself?
Why try?
Why am I different only to be told that I am the same as I always was?
Why become one with myself when I'm judged by a double standard?
Why be morally right and live in a morally wrong world?
Why can't I prove myself?
Why can't I earn it?
Why can't I prove what is thought to be right, wrong?
Why can't someone redeem themselves?
Why believe in the future when all that is thrown in your face is the past?
Why do they do it to you yet if the tables were turned you wouldn't do it to them?
Why love?
Why shouldn't I give up?
Why not quit and be defeated?
Why is it still worth it to me?
Why not fade back into the pit?
Why not quit on everything I'm working to earn?
Why not allow myself to regress back into the monster?
Why fight for what I know can be beautiful?
Why stand when everyone around you tells you you must sit?
Why open the door if no one is there?
Why?