Arrowtown

PROCRASTINATION

I hesitate to make a list
Of all the countless deals I’ve missed
Bonanzas that were in my grip
I watched through my fingers slip
The windfalls that I should have bought
Were lost because I over thought
I thought of this I thought of that
I could have sworn I smelt a rat
And while I thought them over twice
Another bought them at that price.

It seems I always hesitate
Then make my mind up much too late
A very cautious man am I
And that is why I never buy
A corner here, ten acres there
Compounding values year by year
I chose to think and as I thought
They bought the deals I should have bought
The golden chances I had then
Are lost and will not come again
Today’s I cannot be enticed
For everything’s so over priced
The deals of yester-year are dead
The markets soft - and so’s my head
At times a tear drop drowns my eye
For deals I had but did not buy
And now I wish the words I pen
IF ONLY I’D INVESTED THEN