Burn money

You earn it
So you can burn it
Wise men say it has
three known states
Consumption, gift or waste

So save what you can
For the lean times
When the going seems good
Animals too do it
this is well understood

Trade your time for cash
Is an extreme
Of chasing an impossible dream
Can't buy one extra breath
For all you are worth

No one has yet saved it
Or had enough
In bad times it may be gone
So trade cash for life
When ever you have chance

Be temperate
Do not add fuel to fire
Burn money once a while
For the fulfilment of desire
To see what it leaves behind in its pyre

In the end
what you keep
Is what you give
so burn it all in haste
through consumption, gift and waste

© Ratish