#favours
"Do me a favour" you say, and so I do
But then one favour turns into two,
And two favours turns into three,
Until there isn't time for me.
"Do me a favour" I say, but you decline.
You say you simply have no time,
To return the favour that I gave,
"Do it yourself; I'm not your slave"
Doing a favour, with none returned
Should feel like nothing's being earned,
But only if you do not see,
I do them not for you, but me.
"Do me a favour" and, once again, I do,
And when one favour turns into two,
And you don't return a single one,
I'm laughing to myself; I've won!
Apr 1, 2022
Apr 1, 2022 at 7:06 AM UTC
_You ask of which I am most afeart, the rumbling tumblings of the troll beneath the bridge or the tinkering favours of an eccentric fairy godmother. Alas, it is the marzipan crumbs of inspiration leading me down the brambled garden path which most unsettle me; the ink that does not write; the unpainted page with not a gingerbread house...in sight._
Sep 5, 2020
Sep 5, 2020 at 3:33 AM UTC
Nothing changes no matter how you try. Change your perspective... see it from another view they say. They must not know in the world I'm a slave to stay. Nothing changes, nothing gets better, just let me die one day soon, and when I try to see it out but it didn't go as planned and I'm still barely alive, do me a favour and walk on by so that death may shortly take me away. Thank you.
Nov 26, 2018
Nov 26, 2018 at 12:47 AM UTC
contributor money will buy
a favourable outcome
this is the most favoured
beat of drum
drumming up money
in mountainous piles
brings favour's ideal
winning smiles
if favourable outcomes
are what you so seek
stack the wads of money
in heaps not so meek
drumming favours
favourably
drumming favours
liberally
the vendor of said
drum beat
will ensure favour's
so neat
to achieve this goodly
outcome
keep beating money's
opulent drum
Sep 25, 2016
Sep 25, 2016 at 9:25 PM UTC
your scarf traces your cold skin, a warm smell of rain
wrapped up in favours, not your particular flavour,
it’s bad now//it’s bad now// it’s bad now
Do you just let things
IN?
Fly with it on a
WHIM?
I could never be so thin,
Holding up a barrier caging what’s
IN
It’s numb now// it’s numb now// it’s numb now
Let them flow,
right through
your tainted soul
Show them what’s real
It’s real now//It’s real now//It’s real now
Feb 17, 2016
Feb 17, 2016 at 2:03 PM UTC