The Lucky Man

"The Lucky Man"


The man wanders around cold and hungry.
He has no place to go and not a dime.
His only desires are for food in his belly
And a place to warm his body for just a little time.

He finds a dollar bill laying on the sidewalk
He picks it up and see the McDonald's sign
He heads to the light and the dollar menu
For now he has an affordable place to dine

For the manager of the McDonald's sees
there is no reason to turn away the man and his grime
For if he needs a place to eat,
Then the manager sees that as no crime

The man sees the manager trying to keep things clean
He offers his services only in gratitude and not pay
And tells the manager he only wants to help him out
But the manager says, "come the next day"

Meanwhile, the manager pulls from the register
a ten dollar bill he hands to the man
And says "there is more if you can come and help out
And that is where the man's employment began.

At the end of the week, the manager pays
and the homeless man is given his first hundred dollars
Since having time off, he heads to the track
And bets his hundred on a horse that is hollered

The man won big at a thousand dollars
And headed home to his place of work
He invested his prize in the employee retirement
taking advantage of this employment perk

The man's money grew ten times the one thousand
making the investment a goodly amount
The man was happy for now and went
to the bank to open his brand new account

His account at the bank did equally well
as did his luck at the track
For now the man had plenty of cash
And now the man thinks of black jack

He enters a poker tournament out in Las Vegas
with the ten thousand entry he put in his time
His success grew quite nicely and he noticed then
His luck was really beggining to climb

His entry fee grew to ten times the amount
than what he started when he begin to play
So he takes the 'investment' and cashes it in
And returns home quickly rather than stay

When at home, he promptly invests
in a business he has longed to have as his own
a business of helping many others
making more money than he had ever known

After having some time of success in his venture
the man invested in another great quest
one million dollars was the price
of the next great risk in the job he thought best

The venture succeeded with the greatest of speed
And the man was worth more than he possibly thought
would ever come to him in such a way
The man got more than he ever sought.

Upon learning of his fatal disease
the man willed his wealth to his greatest of friends, 
the manager at McDonald's who gave him a chance
and repaid the kind manager before his end