POEMS: Recovery and Shortchanged & Disappointed

November 29, 2012 · Scotorum

These were written for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Our topic this week is being shortchanged or disappointed.

RECOVERY:

or LIFE IS TOO SHORT

Somehow it seems that all too often,
life is full of disappointments.
We might have been shortchanged
or missed out on some annointments.

Times when things did not work out
like we had hoped or expected.
We then feel more vulnerable
and insecure, dejected.

Life has its ups and downs,
that there is no denying.
But it’s throwing good after bad
to spend too much time crying.

Keep your lifeline moving
onward and upward daily.
Soon there will come a time
when you will be skipping gaily.

SHORTCHANGED AND DISAPPOINTED

I made a reservation for a room
at a Hilton Garden Inn
through Hotels.com,
so it was prepaid
by credit card.
The total cost was $95,
a bargain for that class of hotel.
But when I got there,
they had no record
of my reservation.

To get “verified” by PayPal
so I could bid on eBay
for stock for my business,
I had to open
a new checking account
and deposit money in it.
PayPal assured me
that if there was not
enough money in my account,
they would charge my credit card.
They did not tell me
I would still be subject
to “insufficient funds” bank fees
if that happened.
Admittedly I got a bit reckless,
and overdrew my balance
with half a dozen too many
eBay purchases for my business.
Today I got a bill for $150 in bank fees.
which wiped out any profit I might get
from the items I had purchased.
Disappointment.

Poetry