Reading Jane Austen
By May Kwek
I am reading Jane Austen
As I have said above
About riches, marriages
And alliances in the
disguise of love
I have heard the
characters speak of money
Being the almost literal
measure of a man
One with a good income
must eventually
Be captured with a
wedding band
They talk of balls and
fortunes
Of people and not much
more
Because back then, it
really seems
It was a much smaller
world after all
Their idle lives of
leisure
Singing, music and dance
With inheritance and all
that propriety
Very little seems left to
chance
Yet when I look at all
their riches
The seemingly idle utopia
they enjoy
They feel so miserable
deep within
That I think they would
do better for some toil
Copyright © 2016 by May Kwek
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