Why....
When you spend a lifetime, working so very hard and long.
When the fruits of your labour, disappear with another's song.
When all your efforts and patience, amount to nought.
Why? because alcohol is the only goal to be sought.
When you find yourself in a situation, not of your will.
And all the others around, decide it is you they will kill.
And even then you operate, with consequence to minimise the lost.
How is it? you maintain sanity, at such a high personal cost.
When you suffer the pain of loneliness, and total isolation.
For many a year, as you fight off this predication.
When you live and fight, so long in this hell.
With no more than a hope, that it will turn out well.
When you give your lifetime, to the service of others.
Consider always that each son, has a mother.
Why is it, you sacrifice yourself to maintain a sons prestige.
Tis simply because, by an example you lead.
When you spend and invest, for a future to share.
With a million examples, to prove that you care.
Accommodate the difficult, but rejected no less.
Resulting in heartbreak, when you fail to impress.
Why is it? you give 10 years of your life, to this company and true.
Only to find an executive, who knows not what you do.
Has the power to fire, without conscience or thought.
So once again your efforts, this time amount to nought.
Why? when your lifetime should be coming to fruition.
You find yourself alone, without love or recognition.
When all that you have done, disappears and is lost.
How is it? you maintain sanity, at such a high personal cost.
There is only one way to say.
"I Love You".
But there are thousands of ways to demonstrate.
Steve… Aka… "The Old Sea Dog"… 1999… © .