A Poor Man

A POOR MAN A poor man is limited A poor man cannot fully provide for others A poor man cannot meet the material needs Of those he loves A poor man contracts life A poor man worries too much A poor man is afraid of being even poorer A poor man does not have And cannot give A poor man lives in perpetual desperate hope For some surprising miracle A poor man prays And is made rich in praying A poor man in money Is not always poor in spirit A poor man may be humble A poor man is often humiliated A poor man is easily abused A poor man is told to do by others What he would never tell anyone else to do A poor man has few options in most thing A poor man is more like a slave than most others A poor man is some ways dead A poor man may want to work his way out And find this impossible A poor man is ashamed of being poor A poor man may be a burden on others A poor man may be an old and tired man Who sometimes wishes it were all over A poor man may be an old man who is done with everything Except his suffering-