The Benefits They Get Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Few people actually respect,
The benefits they get...
From free entitlements.

Long gone are those times,
When many had a collective mindset...
To do for their neighbors,
What they themselves expected...
To receive in return.
And mostly doing this,
Without the feeling to receive back...
A getting that was earned.
It was just accepted,
People respected.

Today people live with their own interpretations.
To get to recieve the feeding of more greed,
People cling to this belief as if to do it religiously.
And those not capable of getting their share,
Are first to be shown ignorance everywhere.

Long gone are those times,
When many had a collective mindset...
To do for their neighbors,
What they themselves expected...
To receive in return.

So many today are caught up in selfishness.
And only to think of others,
When the taking from them is done...
Is thought to be in one's own interest.
To then still not comprehend...
What goes around comes back to them again.