money

If only I didn't have to share my coffee
with everyone who asks for it, she says

And she comes marching proudly in
with a box of sweets she has bought
with her own money from a job she joined
very very late in life, that pays her a pittance

and yet, there is nothing more important in life
than money you earn yourself, she says

as she takes a sip of the coffee
that she now will not share with anyone
because she bought it herself