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