Charity

If you could donate money
Like Melinda and Bill Gates,
I wonder how you would decide
Who gets what on their plates.

Would you choose education
Or research for a disease?
Would you divvy up the funds
To various degrees?

Museums always need donations,
Hospitals as well;
Agencies that have the poor
Among their clientele.

Libraries and nursing homes,
Pantries needing food;
Lots of people who’d respond
With so much gratitude.

Though most of us are not endowed
With riches on that scale,
That doesn’t mean the urge we have
To give should not prevail.

We give within our means if we
Are so inclined to give;
It’s good to help the people who
Are struggling to live.

You do not have to be Bill Gates
To have a little part
In helping things improve a bit –
You only need some heart.