The mistake was mine

This world is far too selfish by half!
Setting aside all notions of exchange,
this world simply refuses to acknowledge anything!
All this endless settling of accounts...
Today I am truly, deeply tired!

I never said, remember me!
Never said... you mustn't forget me!
What was I, after all!
I only said, what I received without asking—
shouldn't there be some unearned compensation for that?
I only said, what I gave without being asked—
shouldn't its value be paid back?
There would remain, perhaps, a small debt...
yours to me, and mine to you?

No... it simply wouldn't listen!
I know... how could it listen!
If it listened, could life even go on!
It is such a vast world,
and I am but a tiny inhabitant within it!

No no... if debt remains with me,
that simply won't do!
It's terribly shrewd with accounts!
If its calculations go wrong, how could that work!
Tell me, did it truly take an impartial accounting,
or have I simply failed to balance the books even now?
Who knows!

If you turn the compass properly,
I've never heard of a circle's radius going awry!
So perhaps the mistake is mine alone!
I still haven't mastered the compass!