A Different Showing Of Appreciation
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
If one should do for others...
Without expectations of impressions to make,
This would take less time...
To think of explanations to create.
For the purpose done to do for others,
Who hesitate awaiting for excuses to refuse...
What is done for them.
By someone they will take for granted.
And eventually not appreciate anyway.
With a believing what was done to do,
Unexpectedly...
Could have been better if they knew,
What was going to be done...
Had them choose with a choice,
Of their own to make.
'I...uh...don't know what to say.'
'Thank you is okay.'
'But...
You didn't have to go out if your way,
To do this.'
'If I had gone out of my way,
I would have expected...
From you a different response.
Along with a showing of appreciation!'
'It's not that I don't appreciate what you did.
I do.
But your doing caught me by surprise.
It's not often someone does anything for me,
Without my opinion or suggestions to give.'
'You're kidding?
By your reaction,
I would not have thought that at all!'
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Submitted by lpahtillah on April 13, 2022
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,005 |
Words | 221 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 3 |
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