Mar 2012
What did we do right,
Except do nothing wrong?
What did we do good
Besides not doing bad?
How did we help?
By sitting here like bums?
What did we do at all
But make people sad?
Why award the lazy
For getting off their ***?
Why award the worst
For doing good?
Why not award the helpful?
The people who are kind?
The people who stand up
When no one would?
Except do nothing wrong?
What did we do good
Besides not doing bad?
How did we help?
By sitting here like bums?
What did we do at all
But make people sad?
Why award the lazy
For getting off their ***?
Why award the worst
For doing good?
Why not award the helpful?
The people who are kind?
The people who stand up
When no one would?
I thought of this poem when the teachers awarded a student for turning in a lost cell phone. ONCE. I feel like he shouldn't be awarded. He should be thanked, but not particularly praised. Because it's not that he did the right thing, he just didn't do the wrong thing. And then people walk around day after day doing the right thing... but no one ever stops to think maybe to give back to them.
