Abhijit Roy - Expenses

While we were busy counting coins lost and gained,
through all expenses, at the days' endings,
worrying over the balance that remained,
we planned wiser spendings.

All the while our wristwatches counted,
with measured mechanical strokes of the second's hand,
to what; the expenses of the coins of life; amounted,
but we were too busy to understand.

Had we paid heed that this is something we cannot save
and the balance is lesser at the days' endings,
we would have been wise enough to plan, and brave,
similar wiser spendings.

Abhijit Roy

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