No Money Down

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. - Thoreua

i get upset when things are taken from me

but the reality is that they were never really mine

they're leased without an option to buy

for a short time

at least that's what it said on the flashing, neon sign

Author's Note

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life." - Thoreau

Reviews

[barleygirl]

For a year I've been trying to study Buddhism (among other theologies), which tries to teach us grasping humans to let go of the outcome. I've actually had a few successes lately, turning my ego-response to a loss into something else . . . often it's a great poem! *wink! wink!* Fondly, Margie

[Pete]

i'm too much of a control freak. gee, i wonder where that comes from ... :)

[Amaka💜]

This is really true coz some people usually have entitlement issues,they think theu ate robbed of some things when it was not really theirs to begin with

Amaka💜

[Pete]

yes. thank you for sharing ... :)

[Chris Shaw]

We come into this world with nothing. We may accrue wealth, but we can't take it with us. Most things in life are easy come, easy go. That isn't always easy to accept.

Chris

[Pete]

with me it's more like hard come hard go. live and learn - makes us appreciate the truly important things more ... :)

[John the Baptist]

You have touched on something people have trouble accepting, to their own suffering: This whole thing is, and always has been, a rental.

[Pete]

as a kid, i remember building sandcastles at the beach and watch the tide wash them away - good practice for later life ... :)