Adieu To A Hardwired Love

What do you have to offer me?

Love?? The world is full awash in both;

those who seek of love and profess

also in return a remittance of love.

This world is a mess

of those who demand

of love and

in the name of love.

I simply accept not a love

That demands of me, sees me

in dissatisfaction and,

does not play well with others.

Give me instead Gratitude:

not as a demand to me but,

as an act of being and

a flowering of life's joy.