Poor to Rich

Well, it’s a hard climb

But well worth the wait

Everything looks better from a view

Ain’t it grand to be great?

And have everyone stare

And wonder ’what’s going on?”

Yesterday I was nowhere

Now everything’s vanished; time itself’s gone

I try to have a faint memory

When days and dark were twins

What was the reason for my misery

And what was it that made starless nights win?

And it seems that all have gone back

To wearing their snake-like smile

Something that I’ve missed before black

Disappeared and sprayed day silver style

Now I spear-head the places not trodden

And I come at them pocketful blazing

And now I make promises all of sudden

And keep them. Who knew waiting was so brazen?

They say that money give confidence.

I wonder if that’s true

I wasn’t rich but I had a sense

Of who I am and I knew

Now I wonder who I am

Feel hung from a chandelier

Two steps up, and two just slam

And I wonder if I was ever here.