A Good Act

An act of goodness, a deed of kindness:
Is what leads to a phenomenal surge of Happiness;
What is this life, if full of care;
When there is no time to stand and stare!

In such a weather – beaten life, full of greedy people;
With none a thought for the needy and miserable;
won’t a simple act of kindness change the world to a haven;
won’t joy, mirth, insurmountable happiness descend therein!

Good, whether in small or large proportions;
Will assure them and bless us in recognition;
of our outward disposition, as ‘christ’ doth preach to
say “to do good to others as you expect
others to do good unto you!”

As a lady, generously, giving alms to a beggar
As a king donating clothes and gold coins to the meagre
As a child helping the blind man to cross the street
As a soldier marching to defend his land or his beat!

Like a maiden, god-sent, offering water in a sandy desert
to a caravan of travellers, with parched
throats and feet distraught;
Like a fisherman bringing a drowned man
To the shore at sea;
Even a villager, offering single meal to a
poor stranger, starved and hungry!

To bridge the gap, betwixt the rich and poor, the young and old;
To tell as a mother, to a burnt child, who the fire dreads;
To help a boy, like a saving soul, not to turn to bad ways
Didn’t God send word to mankind that
goodness, in whatever form always pays!