He was a free man.
He had no wife.
He had no responsibilities.
He didn’t need a job.
His parents left him a lot of money.
He could come and go
whenever and wherever he wished.
Nobody jostled him in bed at night.
Nobody woke him in the morning.
Nobody demanded that he help them with homework.
He was never nagged to take out the garbage.
He was never nagged to put the toilet seat down.
If there was a game on TV,
he watched it in glorious solitude.
He never got a call or a visit
from a friend who needed a favor.
He didn’t have to keep all the computers in the house
running smoothly.
He could lie on the couch all day,
and nobody gently reminded him to keep active.
Nobody pushed him to go shopping.
He had plenty of money
that no one else laid a claim to.
He was free.
But, he looked in the mirror and frowned.
