<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=445609" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What I Want For You to Do</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am asked to do 'this'.<br>With a request to do 'that'.<br>I am even asked to rate a significance...<br>Upon completing those tasks that I'm asked.<br>To accomplish every one I get! <br>Folks could care less when they make requests.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I can perceive how some are caught up in it! <br>Believing that an attention given...<br>Will keep me interested and content! <br>As if what I do is not a sacrifice.<br>But comes from a natural 'oozing' done...<br>From some 'other' source, <br>That's an outside device.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And...hmmm, <br>That could be a possibility.<br>Now that 'that' has now occurred to me.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sometimes will read those requests I get.<br>But no one has yet to answer my questions...<br>'What's in it for me? <br>What do I get? <br>What do I receive as my benefit? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And don't say you'll do for me, <br>What you've requested me to do! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet have I had a delivery, <br>Of freshly minted one hundred dollar bills.<br>To pop out of a box over stocked.<br>Not once! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Besides...<br>I am more original than that! <br>I want returned to me...<br>The time taken away from what I love.<br>Since it took me quite some time, <br>To find myself quite in love with it! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And not a response do I get! <br>Except the usual...<br>'But you're already doing, <br>What I want for you to do for me too! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">EXCUSE ME? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those requests, <br>Get my silence at its best! <br>Since I recognize...<br>There is no shortage or famine, <br>Of this kind of selfish greed.<br>From Sunset to Sunrise! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is as 'if' my eyes are 'theirs'...<br>And will supply them vision.<br>With a clarity I can provide.<br>And if that's the case...<br>Someone should get me 'booked' <br>On Oprah!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=445609" data-title="What I Want For You to Do de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I am asked to do 'this'. With a request to do 'that'. I am even asked to rate a significance... Upon completing those tasks that I'm asked. To accomplish every one I get! Folks could care less when they make requests. And I can perceive how some..."></div> </div> </div>

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