He has climbed to highest branch of success tree <br />And he's a winner everyone agree <br />But what use to you financial success <br />If in your heart you know no happiness. <br /> <br />He has built his business up right from the ground <br />And become the wealthiest man for miles around <br />But though he is the wealthiest man in town <br />Unknown to most at heart he does feel down. <br /> <br />In high class bars he drinks with his big wig chums <br />This man who was raised in the city slums <br />And he acts happy whilst in their company <br />And hide from them his sense of misery. <br /> <br />And though he came from a poor family <br />His boyhood years were happy and carefree <br />His widowed mother worked to raise her boys <br />She was good woman kind hearted and wise. <br /> <br />Had she lived on she'd have good things to say <br />About her eldest son and she'd feel proud of the way <br />That he reached the very top right from the floor <br />In her wildest dreams she could not have asked for more. <br /> <br />But despite his wealth he live an unhappy life <br />And his unhappiness due to his drug addicted wife <br />From taking drugs she's grown pale and looks sick <br />And she's doomed to die as her habit she can't kick. <br /> <br />And this goes to show that money doesn't guarantee <br />You a life of heart ease free of misery <br />As the wealthy man raised in the slums found out <br />That happiness can oft times go with 'hand to mouth'.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wealthy-but-unhappy/
