Gratitude is an attitude

In the absence of gratitude,

Do not expect an attitude.

Time is a predator, eating our daily cornmeal

Stealing the apparel, attached to our jackets.

If you’ve received one of my treatments,

I appeased, from my feet to the central

I’m just a common man who is not powerless.

Endurance wasn’t my skill

But I’ve learned.

Perhaps I don’t have a milky skin.

But what has appeared would soon disappear.