Waiting For Others

You have been waiting

To be appreciated

For all that you have done

For another.

 

Has it come.

 

In fact,

Has scorn perhaps come

In its stead.

 

You say that you did so much.

You gave so much.

You sacrificed so much.

For years and years and years

You worked and toiled

For the other.

 

Yet you received nothing,

Perhaps even negativity

In return.

 

You felt that it was your sacred duty.

You could not think of doing otherwise.

 

What did you receive

In return.

 

Did you do it

To receive in return?

 

You did not.

 

But something within you

Feels the longing

For a reciprocation

Solely upon the grounds of human decency.

 

A word.

A phrase.

A gesture.

A smile.

 

Did it come?

 

How many years

Have you been waiting for it.

 

The human

Lives a wounded life.

 

Because he is good.

 

But being good . . .

And knowing The Truth . . .

Are two entirely different things.

 

Namaste.