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

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXXAXXCDEFEGXB D D XDX DCXG XEXFX XGX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,005
Words 221
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 15, 1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 3

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