Some people are unreasonable,
illogical, miserable, self centered,
egotistical, liars, and vain
and some are insane
and don't even know it,
love them anyway.

If you do good people
will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives,
and will not acknowledge you
or thank you
for what you did for them,
do good anyway.

If you are successful
you will make false friends
and true enemies and jealously
will surround them,
succeed anyway.

The good you do today
will be forgotten tomorrow
and that will cause you much sorrow,
do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness
make you vulnerable and will cause
you to lose many 'friends',
be honest and frank
anyway.

What you spend years building
and working to achieve
may be destroyed
and be gone in the blink of an eye
and don't worry
you won't die if
all they could do is
cheat on you and lie,
build anyway.

Sometimes people will
really need your help but
will attack you if you
try to give them that help,
help people anyway.

Give the World
the best you have
and you will
get kicked in the teeth but
it's all right ,
give the World the best
that you have
anyway.                                                         ­  Jon York                        2012