All About Me Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

If it had been,
All about me...
As you wish to say,
And have others believe...
No time of mine,
Would I have found to find...
To be in your life,
For you to use to take.
It be used not to waste it.
If...
It was all about me.

If it was all about me,
You would not be...
Where you are to have heard,
My voice.
Read my words.
Or my interest in what you do,
To suggest...
From my point of view,
How it is you could improve.
If it was all about me,
No opinion would I have.
I wouldn't notice you to care.
IF...
It was all about me.

If it was all about me,
Nowhere would I be near you...
To fear making mistakes.
To correct them made.
I'd be somewhere distant,
Hiding my imperfections.
Doing my best to deceive.
Like many choose to do.
I've never done that to you.
And you can not prove it.

If it was all about me,
You would have heard my moans.
Aches to groan.
Or complaints of how I hated,
Mending to heal...
From my own illnesses alone.
Condoning the fact,
It's not all about me.
If it was,
You wouldn't have...
What it is that makes you,
Happy to pass judgement.
You would have no time for it.

If it was all about me?
Look around!
Without me...
What would you have,
To have had accomplished.
If...
You were not in my prayers?
What would you have,
If it was all about me...
I prayed for.
And...
What is it that makes me happy?
You do have a single clue.
Do you?