Tired from work I wanted to sleep
Been a long day – meetings and signing checks
Cold and eerie, where’s my duvet?
Up in a closet folded neatly.
***
Thug Thug Thug suddenly drowning in tears
Anybody care to notice?
Looked around, there’s no one.
Except a shadow of a man.
***
Real Estate Business at stake
A corporation I can no longer keep
Disordered with all Liabilities
Loans, Bonds…. Oh No, the company is in bad debts
***
Debauchery enveloped the mind
Expenses of some kind
Salaries, Utilities, Supplies, Insurance
How then can my people survive?
***
Assets all exhausted.
No more cash and equivalents.
Financial statements read red
Can someone offer help?
***
Scared but has to try
Knocking at door’s friend for a bullion or in-kind
Embarrassing, I know
A CEO begging for dough
***
Lamenting in verses, couldn’t take
Weeping hard as I hit the letters
I am sorry investors, creditors, suppliers
Bankruptcy, today I declare.
***
Now, what to do, send this letter-to-all for info?
Or keep in an email draft to buy time or two
High heavens I’m begging you
Either Liquidity or Solvency will do.
***
Dag, dag, dag, I awoke
Called the office and speak to the CFO
“Steph, is the company balance and up?”
“Joe, relax! Everything is up and about.”
***
Editor’s Note: Cebu Landmasters Inc sent us for a 2-day training in Basic Accounting Workshop for Non-Accountants. Earlier, we were given a task to write a literary piece using accounting terms. We were given only 20 minutes to finish the activity. Above prose was my entry.
ian the pedestrian 
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