- Are You Saying Some Are More Deserving of Your Help?

It makes me shake my head in disbelief

Whenever I come across those

Social media posts from a person

Who shares the good deed they did

On a certain day about when they met

A homeless person, and helped them,

Out of the blue, on that day,

By getting them food and clothing.

But then they go and ruin it

By specifying that this particular

Homeless person wasn't an alcoholic

Or drug addict, just down on their

Luck through circumstances out

Of their hands, as if that makes

A difference as to whether this

Person should get their help or not... ?

Picking who deserves help

Kind of annuls the spirit of

The good deed, in my view...

You either care or you don't,

Otherwise, it's just for a show

Of "Look how nice I am".

As a helper, it's not your place

To decide how your help is used.

It's certainly not your place

To judge how it's used.

There are realities for which

You have no clue about,

And so the decisions taken

May not concur with your usual.

But how dare you decide what's

Worth your help and what isn't

When you can't even begin

To understand this kind of life.

This idea that addicts on the streets

Made a choice and put themselves

In this position makes it so

That these people are condemned,

And viewed as if they are unworthy

Of help just 'cause they get high.

They did this to themselves is the view.

And so what, if that should be true? 

Despair is despair.

And to view it in such simplistic terms

When it's much more complex than that

Truly disgusts me.  So whenever I come

Across those stupid good deed with

A homeless person posts, I roll my eyes

'Cause they all make it a point to specify

That this homeless person they helped

Truly deserved their help 'cause they

Weren't an alcoholic or drug addict.

I always think to myself, 'What an idiot'.

So very simple-minded and unimpressive.