I Sometimes Forget Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Okay!
I agree.
You don't have to accept what I say.
I take what I said back.
You are not the fool I called you,
When you loaned someone one hundred dollars...
Who promised to pay you back!

However...
I wouldn't take someone by their word,
If I did not know their name and/or address.
Or how to trace their tracks.
And I could care less...
How dramatic the act,
With tears flowing intact!

You have called me worse things than that.
And you know everything about me.
And never once have you treated me to lunch!
But you get upset,
If I don't prepare you a perfect cup of coffee!
Or pay for Sunday's brunch.

Forgive me, Your Highness.
I sometimes forget,
Just how giving you are!
Or that you and I,
Are the closest of friends.