It's Free...for now.

Taking and Giving are not simultaneous equations...

You've been disappointed

but i wasn't the one to deal you a bad hand.

Talk to your expectations about that

way too much pressure

beneath which i was barely able to stand.

what do you take me for?

Is my breath an extension of yours'?

My life your pawn?

Can't be.

Do what you want

don't expect it from me.

unlike you

i don't require return on everything you give.

An irony

for 'freely' are they claimed to be released.

Yet are they really?

or do you play the jester?

Cloaking a habit known, the spirit, to vex

in plastic smiles and tinkering laughter.

It is a recipe for offence

and many a rumpling of the forehead.

far reaching it is

to seek that from another

which is yet foggy to yourself.

There's only one certain

of every aspect of the future.

when we are both students

why do you seek i teach you?

I may not promise you tomorrow

for i have it not in my store.

All i do have for you is love

originated from its origin.

But if in the end

i shed it abroad simply to enable me glean

think you not my motives already polluted

before they became an action?

Author's Note

For the true aroma of kindness and love to permeate, we must give without hoping it will help us get. :)

Captcha: outbid

Reviews

[BriBri]

You are talented. I love this poem from head to toe.

[Kwiksie Ifediora]

wow, such kind words. Thank you so much Bri, your review is much appreciated. :)

[R J Askew]

this is precisely how I felt earlier today because of .. well, I can't say ..

beneath which i was barely able to stand.

what do you take me for?

Is my breath an extension of yours'?

My life your pawn?

Can't be.




Do what you want

don't expect it from me.

[Kwiksie Ifediora]

Thanks for your review and for stopping by Orlando. :)

[Eddie Phillips]

Give because it is right. Do because it is righteous. I agree. Loved the poem as always.

[Kwiksie Ifediora]

Oh wow, thanks Eddie. :)

[Rita L. Sev]

Excellent, both in sentiment and word choice. This is a lesson to be internalized... - great piece, Kwiksie!

[Kwiksie Ifediora]

Thanks a'plenty Rita! I appreciate your review. :)

[Angel]

If we are only giving in order to receive back again, are we truly giving at all? But, on the other hand, should we expect to receive, and never give? OH, why can't we just share....

[Kwiksie Ifediora]

#sigh...'tis the great question mi dear angel...
better yet, why don't we just GIVE...AGAPE style, y'know? ;)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I agree totally with the sentiment and in this piece you lay it out in spendour with evokation and eloquence.

[Kwiksie Ifediora]

wow. I'm very honoured by your review John. Thanks so much. :)