“Help” by Pat Bergen


To pick someone up the first time
The rush of being useful
Feeling needed
The second time? A repetition.
The seventh? A chore
But you must. Seven and more.
Seventy-times seven
Because they need it.
And so do you.


Pat Bergan is a professor at a university in the Midwest. He received a PhD in Computer Science and enjoys writing poetry as an alternative to his more technical research writing.