“You’re going to have a hard life,”
My boss told me, in my 20’s
I’ve had dreams crushed, my heart broken
But who hasn’t
I’ve lived impoverished a long time
I didn’t feel it as a Harvard student
When I got my Ph.D.
I was worse than impoverished, deeply in debt
And I felt it
I’ll likely never get out of debt
I wrote and published a book
When I was poor
I lowered myself to begging a few times
Was relegated to the back seat of a lot of cars others owned
All the while I played and wrote music, poetry, lyrics
Some people live a comfortable life
To them, a good life
But shit happens, even to them
Some people are rich and complacent
Some people are very rich and dedicated to acquisition
I have known a few years of comfortable middle-class
And bought expensive art prints
A piano, an amp, guitar
A couple crystalline rocks
I travel places with my partner
My life has been hard at times
And I have known accomplishment, and contentment, and bitterness
I have no regrets
David Fekete 