THE RICH MAN & THE POOR MAN
By: Steve Gingco
“Food and money I give to you,
Why do you shout so mercily
When I give you your part?"
queried the rich man.
The poor man replied:
"your question you can not answer
For from pain and agony you are free,
But 1 have suffered and borne The situation that I don't like
to be."
That I couldn't understand
Because life for me is easy,
I take this and take that,
And life is just what I want to be."
consented the rich man.
"Comfort your mind, rich man,
with realities of death.
Your wealth I do not cavy
For you can not buy
eternity with money.
If to live happily
is to live in hypocrisy,
Then I prefer to be silly
so I would be holy.
Life you love so much you will lose
And only then will you understand
What agony is, "the poor man shouted."