Pension Returns
At last the final day has come
that ends a lifetime’s work,
from dawn to dusk
and even more
I was not one to shirk.
But working lives must come and go
and I retired today.
That means
I do not have to work,
though now I’ll get no pay.
A pension earned by many years
of paying UK tax,
at current rate
six hundred pounds
a month, shared taxman’s axe.
So now I’ll draw my pension,
I really cannot wait
for my return on income
I invested
in the state!
For this income I invested
I can claim without a doubt,
if I can just live
fifty years
before they lay me out!
Ivor G Davies
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