Is time so valuable it needs a price?

The answer to that is not so very nice

For, altho' there's no doubt of its value

Putting prices on it indicates there's a due



We need not specify a price for our time

As then we diminish the value of it - prime

For what really counts is doing the job well

And thus - we are served by the work itself



Buy the work, the talent, and the craft ...

For this is what returns more than half

Price that dedication by the hour or day

And some will feel it's just not fair pay



Tristram



(c) Christopher W. Thomas

5pm Sunday, July 12th, 1998