May We Never Tire

May we never tire of lending hand

If so? Then try again

Become that thing called firebrand

One of many links in chain

There need not be a great disaster

Or soft pitiful pleading 

No skill it takes to even master

Attend to someone’s needing

For if we indulge our worst impulse

To rate only our well-being

All come second to other’s first

What hungry beast we’re freeing

A dozen palms, each day upturned

Unearned a place at table

Instead, in ours, be taken up

And loved as best we’re able…