Luke 17:10 New English Translation (NET Bible)

10 So you too, when you have done everything you were commanded to do, should say, ‘We are slaves undeserving of special praise; we have only done what was our duty.’”

 

Paying taxes

 

Always the unexpected happens

Although I knew it was coming

Bills flying out some hidden place

Called buried in my “forgetful” mind

 

How could I forget the yearly routine?

The certain time I would be summoned

Month after month an unfinished rhyme

After many years “unexpected” bills to find

 

Insurance and taxes floating to the surface

Slowly but surely to cast a tightening web

With the final insight of the year’s ending

To press the sense of freedom to its very core

 

It appears that every time that years go by

It overtakes me more sudden like a menace

And gives me the realization of a long-lost cause

That merciless slaps and kicks me to the floor 

 

Jan Wienen