Mislaid Indented Help

Helplessness seeks help in despondency When resources slip out of porous hands A tacit realization of innate inadequacy Devours the dregs of impaired self-esteem. The feeling sinks in the pool of pale psyche Averse however to breathe the air of truth Lies there unfelt in suspended animation A state assiduously unaccepted by the mind. The hostile wrecking winds are thwarted By the helping hands morphing into shield The needs are quenched like the arid thirst By the cloud burst of benign magnanimity. Time turns to flow in the course so desired The legs that couldn’t walk a foot forward If and whenever the hands are left unheld Become boat sailing smooth in waveless sea. Tides of time inundate the changed ethics Latent self-respect floats on flood of sense The bruised mind gets busy digging channel For the repulsive memory to flow to oblivion. The meagerness that created helplessness Turns to debased maze of inferiority complex A psychic makeover wangled by innate reflex Produces odium and derision for the helper. The helper then wonders in state of conundrum If unvalued effort and dented intent are mislaid On the ungrateful and the undeserving of help For helplessness helps breed contempt in the end. July 21, 2021 Contest : Word Play Poems With Play-On-Words Raison D'etre Sponsor : John Anderson