I Can'T Help Poem by Kathryn Tyler King

I can’t help those around in need

Even if they’re tired and bleed.

Why you ask? They don’t want help

They struggle, they fight and don’t tell.


I can’t help people who are stubborn

or so proud to reach for a hand.

They’ve done nothing since they’re born

They can be counted like the sand.


I can’t help the suffering in the world.

I feel their pain but unable to move.

I’m not hiding nor am I burrowed

away somewhere in a selfish groove.


Lord, don’t let me live just for myself.

I want my life to touch others around.

Don’t let my heart get cold on a shelf

like Your Word thrown on the ground.


You are alive and I know You’re there.

May others see You through my life.

I want more wisdom than I even dare

To fill this vessel, to clean me like a knife.