Is How They Are Poem by Francis Duggan

To help others you often go out of your way
And you perform at least one good deed every day
But there are those of you who even does say
That you must be a fool to help others without asking for pay
The words of a wise one worthy of recall
In life you win some but you don't win them all
Kind people the greedy could never understand
When they do help others they expect cash in hand
They never help those who of help are in need
And sad to say their sort are not a rare breed
To be wealthy and famous in life they desire
And those who help the poor and the homeless they could never admire
Sadly to meet their sort one does not travel far
But then as is said of people how they think is how they are.