Oddly Optimistic
Hope and a prayer, a dollar to spare.
A dream to one day breath in millionaire.
By my calculations, it's always the same.
You just cannot win if your not in the game.
A new house, a car, perhaps travel far.
Try not to spend all my time at the bar.
Buy a new mattress to continue sweet dreams.
Holding tight to the hope, that it's all that it seems.
So why should it be that the winner is me?
When so many have payed in so I can live free.
In life there are winners and sometimes their not.
Some say that the tricks being glad what you got.
Well I have not won, so I do not know.
What it feels like to finally have all that dough.
I pinch every penny and squeeze every dime.
And spend my last dollar hoping this is the time.
Copyright © Robert Johnson | Year Posted 2013
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