To Give

If I had something more for you to take,
I'd let you have an extended break.
I want you to have recuperation, and to have rest,
Because I think you deserve the best!

I want you to feel energized, and renewed,
And not to feel worn out, beaten, crude,
Or feel that the world is weighing down
On you just 'cause it likes to see you frown.

You deserve warm baths with candles and scented salts
And delicious burgers and fries and chocolate malts.
You deserve rest, reclining, with cucumbers on your eyeses,
And only the most pleasant kinds of surprises.

Most of all, you deserve what you need,
Which is something for which you shouldn't have to plead.
You deserve just a little time away
From dreary monotony day after day after day.