Few From It Make Money

Few from it make money and few from it know fame For most penning of verse is a hungry belly game And many great poets have died in poverty Why this should be so ask one other than me So many young writers to greatness aspire But few out of life achieve what they desire It is said out of life we receive what we are due And count yourself lucky if your dream does come true The dream of fame in most writers as they age lives on And they keep on writing though their best days long gone Their hobby or addiction or call it what you may They never even do think of giving away They never grow tired of writing though they grow old and gray We are what we are as some are known to say.