Gratitude

GRATITUDE A poem about gratitude? Here’s my attitude. I will be quick to acknowledge it, true. But I don’t want it, thank you. People who feel gratitude feel they owe, must pay; No one owes me anything, no way. What I might do for someone is done free, Unconditionally. It was necessary, so I did it, see? If it had cost me too much, If it risked my life or limb or such, Maybe I wouldn’t have been the white knight. . . . . But maybe I would anyway - if it was right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . … . . . .. . . . .. . . .. . For Nancy Jones’s Contest “Gratitude”