Acknowledgement

We all have some things we do well,

Which bring us pride and pleasure,

That sense of true accomplishment

Which no one else can measure.

 

For even if we only please

Ourselves, that is sufficient

To even out the ways in which

We find that we’re deficient.

 

It’s nice to get acknowledgement

For something we’ve completed,

But even if we don’t, there is

No need to feel defeated.

 

Of course, that’s what we’re meant to say,

Yet I am not deluded,

Since everyone would benefit

From praise, myself included.