No matter what you say or do, <br />No one seems to care, <br />No matter how much you try to help, <br />All they do is glare. <br /> <br />Even when you forsake yourself, <br />And focus on their needs, <br />They never seem to appreciate, <br />The intentions of your deeds. <br /> <br />All you do is try to help, <br />With the things that they go through, <br />Not even once do they stop and think, <br />Of what you’re trying to do. <br /> <br />It matters not who you try to help, <br />Be it family, foe or friend. <br />They never seem to realise, <br />What you try to do for them. <br /> <br />So what do you do with a loved one, <br />When they reach their end? <br />Do you stop and turn back for them, <br />Or leave them there for dead? <br /> <br />You turn back of course, to help them out, <br />To help them deal with life, <br />But all that does is seem to land, <br />You into deeper strife. <br /> <br />But what you never stop and think, <br />When helping others but yourself, <br />Is that no one ever speaks well, <br />Of the one that tries to help. <br /> <br />April 2003<br /><br />Marlon Harvie<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-one-that-tries-to-help/
