Proxy Invitation (To Mephistophelis): A Poem By This Faust

 

Upon Being Given My Choice Of Gift:

(& Presented With Two Rare Editions Of Goethe's Faust)

Often when we want to show our love's Extant

And of course also do preserve our own selves well 

When we aim wisely we care not so much how money's spent

As we do to preserve our freedoms well as we can tell

And so the rarer items We come to think show more

(The more uncommon things we think are better),

But what we think the symbols chosen – for –

May turn out to be far too much like debt or debtor

So I ask that you consider a different kind of present

And if you wish it not or wish it also that is fine

In that case from the pool of choices you present 

From which you'd have me choose, the first edition's mine

But far away what I would fancy most, consider, please:

On some occasions – for a few conversations – be my Mephistopheles