Parasite

Please welcome 

The classic behaviour

of looking out for ourselves 

in order of decreasing importance 

Watch my loyalties extend

Aren’t you now my closest dependent?

Our needs are one and the same 

Allow me the freedom 

To partake of

What could be 

My share too

The voice is faint 

But I believe it shapes us 

Reforming our next move 

For what’s best:

My needs 

At the expense of yours  

Let me just take 

What could also be mine 

How can I look out for you

If we don’t leave everyone else behind?

You serve me and I you 

Isn’t this how we can take care of ourselves? 

Isn’t this how we can take care of each other?