once you were offered <br />a rent free home to live in <br />for you and your family <br /> <br />a full time job <br />for both your wife <br />and yourself <br /> <br />a much higher salary <br />than you were making <br />a salary for your wife <br /> <br />house was warm freshly painted <br />beautify prepared for your family <br />not taken was this opportunity <br /> <br />a school was next street behind <br />but a short walk for your children <br />your salary was fully guaranteed <br /> <br />house waited empty a full year for thee <br />opportunity open dawn bright for thee <br />salary guaranteed in perpetuity for thee <br /> <br />you chose instead nuts and bolts living <br />you choose instead continued paying renting <br />time passes now your bills I am not paying <br /> <br /> <br />Copyright © Terence George Craddock<br /><br />Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-rent-free-home-to-live-in/
