Bernard Barclay Poet Narrative

Lazy

It's amazing how lazy people
make up excuses for themselves
it's never their fault 
when the work doesn't get done

The power of girls
lies in the back door of gossip
they gang up in teams
gossiping destroying reputations

but play the innocent when caught
it wasn't me
the words of lies echo through
the halls of contempt

you can spend your life
trying to help people
yet unless they want 
to help themselves

your time is wasted 
on people that are lazy 
and don't want to work 
your time is precious 

Life is so short
each time you stop to help another
is time you could have used 
to help yourself

To stop and teach someone else
is time you could have used on yourself
you could have been a student
climbing higher on the tides of education

yet time is never wasted 
being kind
helping others 
makes a better world

but sometimes 
no matter how you help
it's never enough 
because they don't want 

to help themselves
oh how many excuses 
I'm not clever enough
yet if you don't read the book

You can't know the answer
knowledge is built up with study
if you don't read about anatomy 
you can't know about anatomy

granted some people are gifted
they don't need to study
as much as others 
to build the foundations of knowledge

you won't build a career
playing games on Facebook
you don't build respect
being too lazy to work

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