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Here someone helped you, saved you,

But your gratitude was gone the same day;

Then when he came and asked a favour;

You said, “Alright, but first you must pay.”

It seemed there was no full or half time;

Life: an endless journey in a one-man boat.

Paddling away, swamping all others,

Leaving destruction, and I quote.

Your game progressed through thick and thin;

You found yourself losing if you rested.

Never sleeping you reached for the top-

And grabbing like an eagle, you nested.

You had no time for love or kindness,

That was just, “A pain in the neck,”

Yet for others it was a blessing from here-

But you did not need it to stay on deck.

Of the boat of life, that stops you drowning-

As you travel the waters of strife.

The Antarctic now is where you dwell,

But the albatross is afar, fearing your knife.