Array ( [sid] => 184913 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Oh, to be retired! [time] => 2018-03-04 21:18:06 [hometext] => What will retirement be like? [bodytext] => This morning it occurred to me the turn my life has taken;
Since I retired unrequired to work to earn the bacon!

Since you will be eventually, retired perhaps you might;
Be curious whats ahead one day, and what retirement’s like.

When we no longer have to rise and go to work each day;
Yet despite our absence, our check comes anyway?

When noisy birds awaken us outside our window singing;
And not the piercing chirp of an alarm clock loudly ringing?

The smell of coffee brewing to awake our sleepy heads;
Enough to poke a toe or two outside that comfy bed?

To listen to the distant hum of hundreds of commuters;
On their way another day to phones, desks and computers.

While others check their memos for capitals and comas,
We’ll have a cup of coffee as we head in our pajamas;

Out on the porch, barefoot of course, to bask in morning rays;
While TV news, that we can’t use, reports on road delays!

Today we’ll see the mailman, and watch the gardeners going;
We’ll smell sweet grass with every pass of all the lawns their mowing.

I promise you a week end, each day of the week;
Empty stores, and furthermore, the parking spot you seek!

A movie in the afternoon; a bookstore to yourself;
Younger folks to open doors and get things off the shelf!

What you desired when you were hired, will come one day to pass;
When youre the boss, and you can toss your timecard in the trash!

If I knew then what I knew now, Id be the first to say;
Enjoy what you look forward to, while you’re at work today! [comments] => 3 [counter] => 94 [topic] => 54 [informant] => softerware [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => happypoetry ) Your Poetry Dot Com - Oh, to be retired!


Oh, to be retired!
Date: Sunday, 4th March 2018 @ 09:18:06 PM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: softerware
This morning it occurred to me the turn my life has taken;
Since I retired unrequired to work to earn the bacon!

Since you will be eventually, retired perhaps you might;
Be curious whats ahead one day, and what retirement’s like.

When we no longer have to rise and go to work each day;
Yet despite our absence, our check comes anyway?

When noisy birds awaken us outside our window singing;
And not the piercing chirp of an alarm clock loudly ringing?

The smell of coffee brewing to awake our sleepy heads;
Enough to poke a toe or two outside that comfy bed?

To listen to the distant hum of hundreds of commuters;
On their way another day to phones, desks and computers.

While others check their memos for capitals and comas,
We’ll have a cup of coffee as we head in our pajamas;

Out on the porch, barefoot of course, to bask in morning rays;
While TV news, that we can’t use, reports on road delays!

Today we’ll see the mailman, and watch the gardeners going;
We’ll smell sweet grass with every pass of all the lawns their mowing.

I promise you a week end, each day of the week;
Empty stores, and furthermore, the parking spot you seek!

A movie in the afternoon; a bookstore to yourself;
Younger folks to open doors and get things off the shelf!

What you desired when you were hired, will come one day to pass;
When youre the boss, and you can toss your timecard in the trash!

If I knew then what I knew now, Id be the first to say;
Enjoy what you look forward to, while you’re at work today!

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