Fourteen Years Ago Today.

Fourteen years ago,

Fourteen years ago today

Came that day in my life,

That day I retired from work.

I did my work over the years,

I worked for forty seven years,

Forty seven years and one month,

And in that time

I was never out of work.

I started in chemistry,

Moving onto metallurgy

Then into building maintenance

Where I started my journey,

My journey in computing

And remained in computing,

Remained in computing until,

Until that day I retired,

I retired fourteen years ago,

Fourteen years ago today.

In all the time working

Everything was good

And I feel so lucky,

So lucky to have worked that way.

And now I am retired

And enjoying the life I have,

The life I paid for,

Paid for while working.

My life is wonderful.