Be not a beggar

 

Avoid seeking aids

Unless in bare needs;

Avoid getting helps

Unless in dire needs.

Provide in equals

To those aids and helps.

You should not afford

To be a beggar.

 

Offer help and aids

That must not be baits;

Offer gifts and kinds

That should not be a debt.

Your pay out should not be

Less than your receipts.

You cannot afford to be a beggar,

 

 

 

You be not greedy

Which makes you ugly.

Then you aren’t shut

Doors by the dear ones.

You may remain poor

But not a beggar.

Being a beggar

Is worse than a slave.

18 09, 2005