Why Should I Care?

                    Why Should I Care?

          Why should I care, (are cares so few?),

     If you withdraw your favours from my reach

After so many years of turbulence?.

          Why should I care, (pained by cares’ rue!),

     If you reject me now and seek to breach

My patient heart’s long-standing preference?.

          Why should I care, (whose care is true),

     If I must lose my family and pend

Myself, at your behest, in exilence?.

           Why should I care, (since care I do),

     If our association now must end,

To be replaced by insulence?.

     Because I want your favour, honour and love too;

     Because my heart still favours, honours and loves you!.