If you weren’t here today
Breaking bread; making toast
Where else would you be?
Raking head; crossing coasts
If you weren’t this old
Crossing legs; dreadful boasts
How young were you?
Drinking pegs; thinking ghosts
If you hadn’t failed
Making faces; shedding tears
How would you recognize success?
Taking paces; gulping beers
If this path you hadn’t taken
Pleasing people; forcing smiles
Would you have followed your heart’s desire?
Chasing tweeple; making piles
If you had never broken up
Being nice; breaking hearts
Would you know true love?
Much more wise; playing the right parts
If you weren’t slogging night and day
Pulling socks; tying ties
Would you be bungee jumping?
Over rocks; tasting pies
If you were not earning just this much
Listening Shakira; dreaming big
Would you be a millionaire?
Drowning tequilas; taking digs
If you weren’t moonstruck
Singing songs; moaning wrongs
Would you be starstruck?
Earning dollars; lifting collars
If you had lived a perfect life
Racing cars; raking galleons
Will you have ever learnt?
Braving scars, life’s true medallions?