Money cannot buy happiness, even the misery it buys isn't that great. But for the sake of this debate I'd take that million and buy a million people's dreams. silly as it seems, I'd replace their dreams with a new reality foregoing life's banality and offering a better life than whatever strife they may possess; turn their failure into great success, and I confess I would be happy to oblige their whimsy just to show them how flimsy their wishes would be. Maybe they'll see that they never needed more than they already had. It's not that bad to have just enough. Life is rough enough without the added burden. It would be absurd to think otherwise.
(C) Walter J Wojtanik, 2022
*Written to Poetic Asides April P.A.D. Day 7 – (ABUNDANCE)
don’t make me beg and plead.
I need you as a lover, a friend.
Please, don’t make me ask again.
Those mixed signals that you send
won’t fulfill my needs.
Please, don’t make me ask again,
don’t make me beg and plead.
I don’t want to borrow your heart,
I know I’ll need it for a while,
as I have right from the start,
I don’t want to borrow your heart.
I’ve been hit by cupid’s dart,
launched from your sweet smile.
I don’t want to borrow your heart,
I know I’ll need it for a while.
But if I must, I’ll steal it,
that fact is undeniable.
and when it’s gone, you’ll feel it,
But if I must, I’ll steal it.
I hope you won’t repeal it,
my love is quite reliable.
But if I must, I’ll steal it,
That fact is undeniable.
(C) Walter J Wojtanik – 2019
Poetic Asides April Poem-a-Day Challenge 2019 – Day 5: Steal