Someone Isn'T Giving Up

You said - Give and I'll be given back And I gave And I became empty And deserted I promised Not to feel for your world Never again The other day I attended the funeral of the wife Of an old friend I saw my friend sitting by the coffin Standing behind I heard him whispring Honey Tomorrow In the morning You open this box And come back to me It didn't take a moment For my eyes to become Warm and wet I broke my promise Yesterday I bought a turkey For tomorrow is Christmas Eve And I was cheated For the bird was a pound less Than the weight I had paid for I again promised To make myself more bitter Today on my way back From work I saw a young woman in rags Blind and skeletal Struggling to cross the road With a begging bowl in her hand I ran between two speeding cars Helped her to the sidewalk Across the rushing traffic I looked at her face And felt a jolt inside my rib cage Took out a grand from the wallet and Squeezed it in her fist Blessed her in the lord's name And returned home I broke my promise again Why are you So stubbornly persistent I heard myself murmuring