I Write Because I Have A Pen And Paper (Poem Collection)

Richard Cory

this poem was inspired by the poem Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson 

Whenever I walk downtown

Everybody looks at me from toes to crown.

Everybody envies me for being rich

And for having the power to decide which is which.

They always think that its perfect to be me

But they don't realize its only what their eyes can see.

They always think that I am the perfect person they could ever wish to be.

They never thought that its so difficult to be me.

Its hard to be a person who got no one to share the pain

It's like a living hell and a life in vain.

I am Richard Cory

The man that everybody envy.

They don't know that being me is not happy.

So one summer night, as I turn off the light

I did everything, I mean everything I might.

I'm gonna give up this fight and end the tragic fable

And to do so, I'm gonna pull the trigger in my temple.