EVERYBODY WANTS TO LEAVE A BIG TIP

Everybody wants to leave a big tip.
Everybody wants to give a dollar to the poor.
Everybody wants to be the one
to be the one to do something more.

Everybody wants to be the one
that plants a flower for peace.
Everybody wants to be the one
to do something to save the trees.

But that's not the way that life works.
Life is a compromise
in the middle of foolhardiness and rationality.

Copyright ©2008 Ashi Shadow
Written in ~2007. The middle stanza was not in first write.