Most people are the very best
when it comes helping out
and will do as much as they can
to help with one another’s plan
that we have set our goals in life
different from the guy next door
who works his job from nine to five
coming home his body sore
and even though he wants to rest
drink a beer and sit a while
he will get up and lend a hand
which is not what he had planned
you never know when you need the help
as things do not announce themselves
something happens and before you know
you become part of the show
we help because life is a chance
when you are on the receiving end
and then you will ask the guy next door
hoping that he is still your friend
true to form he gets out of his chair
leaving his beer still getting warm
and he lends a hand where it needs
and does not take thanks as he proceeds
for that is what friends and neighbors do
in times of need they rally around
for they know there may be a day
when they ask for help in their own way
and those neighbors who he helped out
will rally round as quick as they can
for neighbourly love is a bond so strong
that everybody sings the same song.
Written 07/24/2022. Read my other poems at https://pondblog2011.com
It is nice to be able to call on neighbors when you need them. We do have great neighbors and I hope they never move. They’ve lived here since the 80s and are now in their 80s. The wife is a great cook and brings treats now and again. The husband is always available if you need him. He actually dug up a pipe that had burst in our yard once and repaired it while we were on vacation. You don’t find people like that very often.
I barely know my neigbors and then when I do,they up and move on…
Such is the vagabond way of life. Maybe you need to join a troop of gypsies.
I think that we who RV full time are our own band of gypsies