((((from Owita's notebook)))))))

DID YOU GIVE HIM A LIFT?

Did you give him a lift

He's a brother of man

And bearing about

all the burden he can

Did you give him a smile?

He was downcast and blue

And the smile would have helped him

to battle it through.

Did you give him your hand?

He was slipping downhill,

And the world, so I fancied,

was using him ill.

Did you give him a word?

Did you show him the road?

Or did you just let him go on

with his load?

Do you know what it means to

be losing the fight?

When a lift just in time

might set everything right?

Do you know what it means ~ just

a clasp of a hand,

When a man's borne about all a man

ought to stand?

Did you ask what it was ~ why

the quivering lip?

Why the half-suppressed sob, and

the scalding tear's drip?

Were you brother of his

When the time came of need?

Did you offer to help him

or didn't you heed?

Author Unknown

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