Only when you have to

Be grateful

just when you have to.

 

They’ll subjugate you

into being

indebted

obliged

consigned to slavery

to suit their purpose.

 

Life is a series

of give-and-take,

scrap that guilt

if you can

return favors

to even it out.

 

You are not responsible

for choices

which they made

peculiar to conditions

prevailing

there and then.

 

It’s an obligation

to be returned

not a burden to carry.

Beware of psychopaths!

Be grateful

just when you have to!

 

Daily Two Word Prompt #95

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