by Sita

Created on: August 15, 2011

Give a little, get a lot-
A childhood lesson we all are taught
At mother's knee, we learn those rules
And all those morals we learned in school
So how was I much sense to make
Of how you could just take and take?

You cannot fight for justice fair
With someone who has not a care
For how the world's supposed to work
(My inner child: "you selfish jerk!")
And care you not what hearts you rend,

What helps yourself yet hurts your "friend"?

I never thought I was that naive
But such an insensitive greed
I simply cannot understand
Could it have really been preplanned?
Who does these things, who thinks that way
Of how to take but never pay?

I wouldn't be able to stomach myself
If I put blame on everyone else
And took and took all they could give
And asked for more, asked them "forgive"
Forgive? You didn't even think
You could be wrong to let us sink.

You changed the rules to make us wrong
And said we wouldn't play along
We didn't even ask for much-
Just let us live our lives, and such
But it's all you, will always be
You're always number one, I see.

But now that we all know your way
I wonder what new games you'll play,
What lies you'll speak, what things you'll say,
Who will you blame or curse or pay?
Its always you, and you alone
But when everyone else is gone
There's no one left to use all up
When it's just you, then you'll be stuck.

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