But Sometimes It IS

Then again, sometimes it IS easy to write a poem based on a prompt. Today's prompt was to write about receiving a million tax-free dollars. THAT was pretty easy!!

 

 

“Million Dollar Dreams”                                                                        6-17-09

 

This million dollars

is more than adequate

for my small dreams.

 

With it, I need never again

sell my freedom for a dollar,

wear a uniform,

put up with office politics,

answer to someone

who may know less than I

and cares nothing about me

or my life outside my job,

tolerate verbal abuse

just to make a living.

 

From now on,

I can call all my time

my own,

keep my own schedule,

sleep when I want

for as long as I want,

dress as I wish, ignore

political correctness,

and speak my mind

without fear of being fired.

.

My life will be

one long weekend,

one lengthy vacation

of doing the things I love.

I will read books all day

and write my own.

I will take my wanderlust

to the road in my own RV

and experience more 

of the country I live in.

 

And I will buy my own home

for the first – and last – time,

no McMansion

with a swimming pool

in some exotic location,

but something simple and small –

a new manufactured home

placed on a small lot

in the town I live in now.

 

I want only comfort,

not extravagance,

I don’t need a luxury car,

diamond jewelry,

expensive clothes,

art treasures,

or trips around the world.

Those were never my dreams,

so why should they be now?

 

My dreams were of freedom

from others’ control,

from want, from fear,

from a life of quiet desperation.

 

This million dollars

will be more than adequate

to meet those small dreams.

 

by Carol Berger