(written 2005)
Stoop but do not pity,
when you offer your hand.
Be an angel in this city,
like a diamond in the sand.
Stoop but do not fall
when your hand is taken
the pull will not be small
in those that were forsaken.
Stoop but do not kneel
for someone needs to stand
to stand and yet reveal
the will to understand.
Stoop but do not doubt
for the fallen understands
Stoop for those without
who have no legs or hands.
To stoop is to be revealing
of your care for those who lie
those who have lost all feeling
who neither stand, nor kneel, nor die.
So stoop but do not pity
be a lucky star and try
to give in this hollow city,
some one a bedtime sigh.
-JHJ