|
Join the Ranks
by Jeffrey ParrenI wonder to myself,
What would the world be like
if everyone worked
at their careers
by choice
not by need
doing what they cherished
instead of
what they had to?
What if everyone
just quit their 'jobs'
and sought out dreams
of youthful endeavors
or of adult clarity?
What if millions
upon millions
of intelligent
and hard-working people
just decided
to up and quit monotony
and join the ranks
of those happy
and that getting by
becomes somewhat easier...
that the bed
never felt so soft?
I wonder to myself,
though the precedent
has been set many times before,
could I really
do what makes my heart
and mind both happy
and at ease?
Couldn't we all? 10/30/2008 Author's Note: Inspired after reading "Job" by Joe Cramer.
Posted on 10/30/2008
Copyright © 2024 Jeffrey Parren
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Charlie Morgan on 10/30/08 at 02:21 PM ...Joe is a swifte putter oner and a quick taker offer, [if you will] so i didn't get to read his; and your words are/were mine in the 70s going to Calif. by Harley and hair-trailing...i wanted to NOT stop, just wanted to keep riding, maybe see Jimmy Buffet in from Fla. Keys...it would be good, eh? |
| 