If you're in a relationship
Let substance replace performance. Skip the demonstrative displays and score-keeping ("after all I do…") and put the energy into completion — actually finishing the things love starts: the promise kept, the repair followed through, the listening continued past the easy part. Balance is the image's instruction: reduce what's too much between you (drama, demands, one partner's airtime) and add to what's too little (appreciation, rest, the quieter partner's voice). Modesty here isn't meekness — line 5 permits real firmness when something is wrong. It's strength that doesn't need an audience.