I, For Years, Would Misconstrue the Wisdom of His Words

“Money isn’t everything,”, and...“Money can’t buy happiness”...were, for me, the most perplexing things my father’d say, And I, for years, would misconstrue the wisdom of his words, and failed to get the message he was meaning to convey. “As long as you are comfortable,” he’d clarify his view, “and all the ones you care about...all the ones you love, Have, as you, a place to sleep and food that will suffice --- even if the only thing you don’t have plenty of “Is the means for purchasing the items you perceive as those which tend to indicate a person’s great success --- If you’re safe, and have your health...in my estimation...often times the happier man’s the one endowed with less!” See my 59 years of widely diverse poetry formatted, by theme, in 14 individual slow-loading manuscripts at: https://www.writerofbooks.com Cheers, Mark