beggars can’t be choosers
they’d told me all my life.
I was just a beggar -
that beggars can't be choosers.
to spite them - to prove them wrong –
I chose not to beg.
and it came to pass –
I lost you.
beggars can’t be choosers
image; Art Johnstone. ‘beggars can’t be choosers’. Taupo New Zealand.