Give You What? Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Give you WHAT?
Time?
Whose?
Mine?

What on Earth have you done with yours?
And what makes you think I am going to give you mine?
Do you know how much of it I have spent in development?
To produce what today I can without a shred of doubt,
In other minds to have them discriminate to define?
And you want my time to do what?
Help you find your own that has been WASTED?
As you sat around procrastinating on your 'ifs' and 'buts'.

My days being your fool,
No longer exists!
I gave that nonsense up.

Give you WHAT?
Time?
Whose?
Mine?

I am not in that position,
To afford to have that disposition.
Call it what you wish...
But that kind of patience,
From me I have dismissed.