Happiness Not Your Own

If you make your self responsible for another’s happiness,

You’ll lose yourself and your self respect

You’ll fall to the ground in utter distress.

Your nights will be filled with torment and a complete lack of rest.

You will end every day crying you did your best.

You will wring your hands and beat your chest.

You will run back and forth your life a total mess.

Everything will crumble though you protest.

Fights will break out and there maybe arrests.

In the end you will fail and what did you expect?

You throw away every ones last bet.

Having learned now nothing will work in retrospect.

Once you’ve allowed your own neglect.

Take heed and remember these words don’t reject

In each of our lives we have to elect
 
to allow the treatment we expect

What ever we accept is what we will get.

If we are willing to abuse ourselves in loves quest

Then go right a head read this poem

as just a playful jest.