Poem Assignment Paper: A Friend No Longer

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A Friend No Longer
Stop demanding of others what you should do yourself
--Wu Wei
When my friend requested for a hand,
To put his family's financial issues at ease,
I obliged freely, and easily,
I gave with little opinion,
Did what every honorable person would,
And he felt happy and so did I.
Months later I was pressed with financial lack,
And I remembered him for I was stuck,
For his promise to pay back the kindness, and I felt slack,
But he pushed me aside, sort of gave me a smack,
Insisting that the pa...