life changing decisions ...every form of refuge has it's price!

Views in Verse - on 'the easy road'



Success they say comes at a price ...what price do you pay?

The long term often highlights the larger than life consequences of misplaced short term decisions.

The well heeled crowd

She was a stunner as a young'un
When her star was on the rise

She caught the eye of an older man

A well heeled kind-a-guy

He got around with a spring in his step

While he sported his brand new catch

While she dined 'alfresco' with the social set 

Such a seasonal match

Summer in the Cote D'azure 

the usual soirée...

Picking up a purchase here and there 

set the right tone for the day

Commitment never seemed an issue

As they used one another with style

Burning the candle at both ends

Marriage would wait a while

She sometimes thought about a family 

when evening would fall hard

Raising the subject from time to time

Was met with flowers and card

In truth it seemed a little odd to her

that she simply didn't just 'fall...'

He offered that 'his life was hectic' 

Which explained very little at all 

Later on it was as the facts came out

That he simply couldn't 'sire'

He sent her a stunning necklace

And some suitable words in a wire...

"I felt you knew when we took this up

That I'm not a fatherly guy

I love what we do have together

But I don't really know just why?"

That night she looked hard in the mirror

And did not really like what she saw

He said he needed some time abroad

From below she heard the door...

The impact of this hit her hard

and made her clearly think
What is it that I really do ...?

Except go out to functions and ...drink"

And most of her 'friends' 

now seemed so very

dreary with their lot

Just "keeping up with their daily grind"

And paying for what they'd got

On further thought she began to muse 

that winter came early this year

Recently she had just stayed at home 

While he "paid for it all ...my dear"

 

In that moment she came to realise

That he expected very little in fact

he flawlessly kept up his end of the deal 

in that he always did come back!

Looking again in the mirror so cold

Her thoughts they drifted afar...

I know of a perfect winter retreat

"I can spend a few weeks at the Spa"

Forwarded from my I pad - Grahame J Flynn