What Goes Around Comes Around

Someone in need kindly pleads,

And finally “someone else” grudgingly heeds,

And gives partly as they have asked.

But the “someone else” will need too, one day,

And “yet another” will deridingly say,

“Why am I always asked?”

Then “someone else” will glare at “yet another”

And declare, “That’s no way to be, my brother,

A cheerful giver that would be better.”

And despising the help and walking away,

He’ll judge “yet another”

For being that way—

How he or she was to the letter.

Wisdom says what we eschew

And judge in others—we do too.

We see it in them and fuss.

The gift is to see ourselves in them—

To see good in all, then not condemn,

But begin to do unto others,

As we would want done unto us.

 -jenn long