Basking In The Glow Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

When one's life has been spent self indulged...
Do you think they have discussions,
About someone who has sacrificed their needs?

They would not understand what that meant.
Or might find it amusing that people actually suffer,
For the cause of uplifting others.

People self indulged have no clue that's what they do!
They've become too familiar with the concept of leeching.
But then again...
This is interpreted,
As an agreement others make within themselves,
To splurge those self indulged with attention.

A need that keeps them surviving.
At the cost of someone 'basking' in the glow of their aura.
Something they 'too' find unresistable!
And one that is quickly given as if to gift.