Split Personality

SUNDAY SCRIBBLING
http://sundayscribblings.blogspot.com/2011/03/259-free.html
asks us to write about 'Free'.

SPLIT PERSONALITY

Such a little word is 'free',

When it means 'give-away',

When it's a little nothing

For which we need not pay.

It's just a litte gimmick,

A ruse to draw us in,

Before the really serious part

Of spending must begin.

But such a powerful word is 'free'

When it means 'unfettered'.

When it comes to describing release and joy

It just cannot be bettered.

Four letters meaning soaring

Untrammeled, like a bird,

Or 'a little bit of nothing'!

A split-personality word!

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HANG IN THERE!

How they got there in the first place I haven't got a notion,

But ten men and a woman were high above the ocean.

They were flying in a helicopter when the pilot said

'The engine's giving trouble! We'll very soon be dead

Unless you hang down from the craft by this very handy rope!'

So the ten men and the woman saw this as their only hope!

They were hanging from the helicopter, swinging in the breeze

When the pilot shouted 'You're too heavy! One must let-go, please!'

Then began the arguments; the men all felt that they

Were terribly important and should be allowed to stay.

The pilot bellowed 'Cut the cackle! We're really on the brink!

One of you must jump or else the whole darned lot will sink!'

So up spoke the woman 'It's been my lot in life

To make continual sacrifices, as Mother and as Wife.

I've always got up in the night to tend a child, and then

I've always let the largest portions go to feed the men.

I've scrimped and saved and gone without. I know my place and so

I think that it is right if I'm the one who now lets-go.'

Too late the ten men realised that they had all been trapped......

Not only did they raise a cheer...

Every one of them

Clapped!

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