a word so powerful that it gives you the chills
and full of energy your heart at the same time fills
no matter what they say that this person has done
you realise that this is the person who helped you in the past
and the feeling is too strong for both of you to see
but not so powerful for everyone to feel

because their minds are tainted and full of fear or guilt
to understand gratitude you have to be able to feel
the energy of the people who want to see you go far
even though at first you don’t realise who they are
but when you do you can’t really control what’s going on
you just laugh or cry or say thank you… and so on

you are now reading a poem written for them
the people who ‘ve helped me and I ‘ll never forget
the people who never asked anything back in return
but somehow were able to keep the fire in me burn
the fire of helping others behind their back
and not ask for it back even when you are out of luck

a lot of those people you have never met and maybe never will
some others are around you but them you cannot even see
because your mind is tainted and full of fear or guilt
but you ‘ve opened your eyes now and are able to feel
the debt of gratitude you owe them and always will
which the only way to pay off is do what they did

Sweet Floyd

16.03.2012