Felt Intentions
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
What I feel I should do.
With the best of my intentions meant.
Has taught me one lesson after another.
That whatever my intentions,
Were meant to begin.
Had me ending to defend,
My good intentions.
To leave me considering a doing to prove,
That my showing to express...
Of caring more to care less,
About those good intentions respected.
I would be left much happier,
Keeping my peace of mind...
To have earned and deserved it.
Protected from insults heard to hear,
About being selfish to believe and think...
When it is all about me.
To listen from my doctor to suggest,
If I stopped my concern about others.
Their thoughts and beliefs about me.
I would begin to notice,
My life to live...
Would become stress free.
And 'he' then could experience,
Miracles do exist.
'Doc?
Stop joking.'
'Joking?
You are not the only patient I have,
To recommend that to do.
Who insist,
Their ailments, aches and pains...
Are results that came,
From someone else.
And they still want me to believe,
The stress they cause,
Is not the enemy.'
'So...
What do prescribe as a remedy?'
'Medication.
Refills.
And free advice they don't take!
But hopefully,
Your good intentions to feel them,
Will become prioritized to realize...
Yourself to be always,
The first recipient!
Without co-pay and cost effective!
And at your age?
I would care less who thought what.
Or the why, where and when of it!
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Submitted by lpahtillah on July 16, 2021
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
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Words | 245 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 25, 2, 10, 2, 12 |
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