<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=433687" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Chained. Locked. And, Enclosed!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trapped and saddled with bills to pay! <br>It seems the life I live...<br>Is here to stay! <br>Visions of wealth, <br>In splendor and good health...<br>Alludes the dreams I see.<br>My creditors remind me! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sapped of strength from the youth I was...<br>I remember once, <br>Trying to grow a beard from peach fuzz! <br>And today I sit with the electricity sky high, <br>Pinching pennies to pay rent<br>And letting my taste for steak drift by! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was just yesterday when I said I had enough! <br>I wasn't going to worry or complain of simple stuff! <br>But when the cable company came to disconnect me, <br>From the 'world'! <br>I decided I should be thankful, <br>I'm not out pawning watches, diamonds and pearls! <br>Like some folks I know...<br>Who have found they lived to keep images, <br>And images are hard to let go! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Especially, <br>When that is all there is...<br>And all there is to show! <br>At least I can still expose my face, <br>And not be disgraced and grow! <br>Now I am glad I don't live for 'things'...<br>Or allow them to keep me controlled! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I may feel trapped and saddled with bills to pay...<br>But I am not like those, <br>Who feel they must hide the lives they chose.<br>Chained. <br>Locked.<br>And, enclosed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=433687" data-title="Chained. Locked. And, Enclosed! de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Trapped and saddled with bills to pay! It seems the life I live... Is here to stay! Visions of wealth, In splendor and good health... Alludes the dreams I see. My creditors remind me! Sapped of strength from the youth I was... I remember once..."></div> </div> </div>

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