{ < Fortunate}
You have
all the riches.
However, a man off
the streets is quicker
to get with
the program and give.
He lives
a less fortunate life.
Yet he’d give up a bite
of his sandwich
just so his neighbor
isn’t famished.
I don’t understand it.
Someone break it down for me please.
Why will a man with nothing
give
more willingly
than a man with everything?
Maybe it is because
he understands the struggle.
He understands not eating
because he has to pay to get smuggled
into a country
where they spit on him
for being from another country.
It’s funny
because it’s still better than his country.
He may be less fortunate,
but his kids won’t have to dig in trash.
He’ll fast
if it means his kids will have
everything he didn’t
when he was growing up.
His sons won’t worry about throwing up
gang signs.
Walking on land mines
in their own neighborhood.
Just so their mother and sisters are eating good.
It’s understood.
He’s living good
from his eyes.
So it wouldn’t hurt him any
if he shared his fries.
He has plenty.
Don’t despise
the man that won’t give.
He doesn’t know strife.
Though it’s alive
in the alley behind his job.
A girl was beaten then robbed
& brutally raped.
He crosses police tape
& blames the young black male.
“It’s his own fault he got shot.”
Not the system that fail.
He doesn’t seem to care
because he doesn’t know pennies.
Change to him is a twenty.
His neighbor doesn’t even have a dime.
He thinks it’s their own crime.
“Up the ladder they didn’t climb.”
They didn’t even have a step-stool.
“They’re ignorant little fools.
Why don’t they look for work instead of sitting on the curb?”
Living in their cardboard,
sleeping with the birds.
Maybe if you helped them out
they’d have somewhere to start.
Why does the less fortunate
seem to have more heart?