For a simple exchange, my good friend, you may buy,
A slick, polished future, with views from on high.
A seat in a chair so soft and so right,
When you get there you’ll never remember the fight.
Or the things that you loved that you missed on your way,
Up this hill where on top is that big, bright “Some Day.”
You’ve made a good choice my ambitious new friend,
For the grandest of futures awaits you in the end.
All I need from you now, to make best come to be,
Is to pay for your dreams with a low one-time fee.
It’s all waiting for you, so act now! Don’t delay!
Success can be yours!
…The price is today.
~r
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Author’s Notes:
Please take this post with a grain of salt (or a whiskey snifter of tears if it’s too close to home) – I don’t mean to discourage anyone from doing the work they’re doing. With two businesses and a family, I found myself up a ladder one day chasing castles in the sky, so I wrote this poem. The idea is not to discourage working all together (wouldn’t that be nice?) but as a reminder that the real beauty of life is available to us whenever we are able to pause and enjoy it. Work is a part of life for most of us… but working to get to somewhere else is the surest way to miss the enjoyment of where we are. Okay, off my soapbox… I’ve got to get back to work!
Peep the process:
Very, very recognisable and makes me think. Thank you for creating and sharing. The poem and the drawing fit each other like a glove.