Doesn't Sound too Bad

"School is hard

to that, many would agree

perhaps leaving school behind

is the way for me.

Doesn't sound too bad,

wouldn't you agree?

My options are limited

to the work of low class

but fifty thousand a year,

enough to live off of,

isn't all that bad.

I have a family now,

a wife and a son,

yet my livelyhood has left me

like a setting sun

but unlike the sun

it will never rise again

as those who stayed in school

snatched it

from the palms of my hands.

Twenty eight thousand, a measly sum

barely enough to make some ends meet,

half had to be cut off out of lesser need

half the time I feel like I'm on the run."

Your plight is great, I can attest to that.

You wished me no harm, yet harm was bestowed.

You talk as if all is now lost.

Yet there is still hope.

I will take the path you did not;

relish in hardship once escaped

for the betterment of our estate.

It is not a matter of trying;

This endeavor will return results.

I will take a few lines out of your book

and modify them accordingly.

Doesn't sound too bad, wouldn't you agree?