Getting Involved Is Expected Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

People believing it easy,
To get involved and commit...
With a doing to submit time and effort,
Are often the ones who had observed this done...
To find they have become the ones,
Who had criticized others to then perceive...
They could do a better job,
Than those who decided to up and leave...
After showing their deeds to prove to do,
Received no respect they had expected to get.

But instead to them was shown,
What others too had given up to have it known...
Perceptions are best kept,
By those who distance themselves...
With lip and not a drip of sweat to experience the 'ease'.
It isn't easy to sweat...
While others express how someone's ego is addressed.
And that is the only reason...
Why someone willingly would sacrifice,
A doing of their deeds to volunteer.

Getting involved is expected.
And people will show up in numbers,
With claims to convince their presence represents it.
Since they have come with intentions mentioned?
To do what needs to have completed and done.
However...
Doing the work?
Others decide by standing aside,
To select those amongst themselves...
Who is better qualified to be eventually criticized.

And...
How was 'your' day?

'You will not believe.'

Trust me.
If anything else...
I 'am' a believer.

'You mean...
If 'nothing' else.'

Whatever it is 'your' picture is clear.
And need not to be redefined.