If time were the minted money of the world,
we’d care to safeguard our wallets every instant,
making sure the valued notes don’t fly away like seconds
through the extravagant course of the darting minutes.
If time were to turn into the legal tender,
we’d carry the unseen folders in our chests,
filled with currency as precious as the years we get,
that we long to live in affluence every wealthy hour.
Sunrise time would be morphed into prized fortune
with splendorous riches enshrined in valued moments.
The crypt of dawn would turn into mental locker
where the gold coin of each second we’d warily keep.
Time would come for us with gilded hours to be spendthrifts,
for giving it generously to a destitute lonely friend in need.
The rationale to rightly own the treasure of time
is to squander it on something that requires it most.
When it’s time to pay alimony
~ spendthrifts discover parsimony
On Christmas morning, beneath the tree
Wonderous gifts her heart could foresee
When she opened her gifts
She knew these were spendthrifts
The rest of the day she felt crappy
The American Boxing Day
Is one where the retailers pay
For unwanted gifts
Received from spendthrifts
They can't possibly give away
Nature endows us with gifts
hoping we'll not be spendthrifts.
She warns us to be aware
her balance we might impair.
Must end all destructive ways
for we are the caretakers
to make sure her future days
become history makers.
May 29, 2018
~3rd Place~
Contest: Nature - Eight Lines
Sponsor: Joseph May
Rules: 8 lines, 7 syllables per line
Rhyme Scheme - AABB CDCD
Surely spendthrifts are the brothers of Satan
And Satan tends to be ungrateful to his Lord as much as he can.
Words are our mortal enemy
they destruct the inner most part
of the human soul
Cut like sharp scissors and paper
just one swift snip and it's a wound
wounds heal,
but memories remain like scar tissue
that you simply cannot see.
We are spendthrifts with words
we squander and hide them
but sometimes they escape
and burn down all the firehouses
the ones far upon the sloping hills
be careful how you play
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