The Oxygen Mask Rule

I'm not doing it FOR someone else, really. But putting your own oxygen mask on first is key, as is helping someone else. ~ Maureen Gibbons

I'm spent my life rescuing,
fixing, seeing to.
I'd always see to your needs —
isn't that what a proper
Southern
woman does?
Only problem is
it doesn't work.
If I'm dying, cannot breathe,
how can I see to your needs?