GIVE WITHOUT EXPECTATION

Expect not love in return for love,

For then you have not given it away,

And the pain of expectancy you have,

Will cause it to decay.

We should not wish another well,

To reap the benefit for ourselves,

For the false concern for their Hell,

In our self-importance delves.

Expect not kindness in return,

Then what you give you will retain,

For a favor done is not to earn,

Accolades of personal gain...

But yet expects naught in return,

Thus denies oneself made pain.

© 31 October 04 Colin F Jones