It is easier to turn a blind eye, than to sometimes look and see

For at times, it is much easier, to worry about what revolves around ‘me’

To sit and eat fancily, while the poor look to be fed

Thinking only of ourselves and our wants instead

Buying fancy outfits or the latest and the new

While the needy are asking, “can you give up just a few”

While we think that our wants are needs, their needs are truly wants

So much that we do not need, no we truly do not

Wanting more, while others suffer will not fill the void inside

We must reach out to others, instead of turning a blind eye

For it’s in the simple act of giving

Where we find a lovely act of living

Giving to those in need, to ourselves we give back

The fulfillment for living as is called, in such a generous act

God has been so generous to us, with all that He has given

He showed us with His love, the way we all should be living

To give to those in need, we must choose to look and see

And learn another way of loving, called generosity

Erin Fitts-Brower

Generosity

Proverbs 22:9 NIV

The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.