A Good Trick

It is a good trick, if we can make it work,
when we make others care more for us
than we care for, or about, ourselves.

This goes well beyond the usual
adults feigning helplessness
whilst being very childish-
which they do without thinking.

This trick requires us
to make the balance
of care by others vs our carelessness
seem proper and virtuous
to those that the careless
expect to care the most.

It is all so very tempting.....