Iger Rolyat Poet Ballad

Winners and Losers

Are winners defined by prowess
In business or in sport
Or by intellectual power 
Backed by academic report?

Is losing determined 
By lack of financial wealth
In lieu of big-hearted happiness
Or optimum good health?

Why do moguls and titans
With no Faith take the leap
While penniless paupers
Leap for joy from their feet?

How come rich men's wives
Are miserable, children spoiled
While laborers are elated 
Though clothes and hands are soiled?

Are winning and happiness one and the same
When the affluent are unhappy is money to blame?

Why are the poor who struggle hard to survive
Still able to know jubilation in their lives?

Their money's still here when the rich are long gone
Just like when they came they leave naked and alone

With wealth or in poverty life is borrowed time
Where prime dividends are the spiritual kind

Abundance is far too uncommon to be the standard
By which winning in life might be judged

Suggesting those without means or money
Were never in favor with God 

The value of winning might be in dollars and cents
But the price of happiness is the lack of pretense

Copyright 2016   Iger Rolyat   All Rights Reserved

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Jannie Breedt November 20, 2016 at 3:51 PM Hi Iger you are onto something here.I had to do a double take on my own reality here. You shook me to re evaluate my life. Thank you. Great truth here Iger Rolyat November 20, 2016 at 6:24 PM Hello Jannie, your comments are very kind. Ironically, this poem is the result of a re-evaluation of my own life. When I became bummed because I was not achieving certain ambitious life goals, I realized that meanwhile invaluable life - moments, people, experiences - were being missed...forever.

Freddie Robinson Jr. October 31, 2016 at 7:55 PM Great poem, Iger! Great wisdom dispensed from your pen. I loved this ballad. A true gem. It is going in my faves. Love and peace, brother. RW Iger Rolyat October 31, 2016 at 9:26 PM Freddie, thank you very much. I appreciate that you had kind words regarding 'Winners and Losers' and took the time to share. I look forward to enjoying some of your work as well. All the best.