You will, no doubt,
receive your reward in Heaven,
she said to me with an air of superiority
and down at heel, run of the mill
lack of charisma; I knew she didn’t have the money
to pay me, I wasn’t doing it for reward,
just to help a fellow human being
in a moment of distress
but still
she had to bring Heaven into it,
she had to tell me that her belief,
the conviction that by doing something good
you must automatically become