Beggars

You skirt around them,

you ignore them,

you pull disgusted faces,

you even poke fun at them,

because,

of some notion planted in your head,

"hard work earns you money - not pity"

but as they say,

"what goes comes around"

and believe me

you'll be lost when she

does it to you,

turns her back at your

outstreched hands,

refusing you

the alms of life.