Life’s Strange Bargains

If love for your spouse you choose to neglect, Your neighbor may swoop in with fond respect. If workers you treat with little care, Your rivals will claim them, sharp and aware. A job in your field may keep you afloat, Yet greatness is born where no lessons were wrote. In medicine's halls, one truth rings tight— No syringe is touched till the purse feels light. A man with success sees his wife take the stand, She guides, supports—a secretary at hand. But failure flips the tale once more, The secretary steps in as wife to adore. For jobs, they demand those well-versed and wise, Yet fresh faces alone meet their searching eyes. In marriage, they dream of innocence new, But find instead experience true. Mohammed Rakibul Hossain