by monique Aug 2, 2006
category :
Miscellaneous /
Misc. poems
I like go people watching, i guess you could call it a hobby. and as i sit there watching everyone run around scurrying, mumbling -forgots -and -gonna-gets. telling impatient children that just one more minute of waiting for dad to look at carpet then they can engulf themselves in the fruits that the toy isle delivers to them. but then i have to stop and think people who are we? really? i mean i watch them come and go. like they cant seem to find their way. its as if they are on a long and endless journey of self discovery. like the seasons we change and grow with time. we spend so much time an energy to become something we are not. that one more doller spent is more important then a doller donated, that more is better, and less is clearly unacceptable. that one more doller spent will be on an item sitting in the closet, or under the bed collecting dust. and i sit there still in thought, something catches my eye i get up to have a better look, then i realize what it is a penny. yes a penny, what people see as worthless is more then you can imagine. you find them on the ground, in the sofa, your shoe, the left to be exact. when its the little things that make all of the difference. and we just toss it aside. but with consideration and a piggy bank for a home it will expand and grow over time. to really break this down a penny which is comparing us to the things we do for a better life. when the simple things are right in front of us . a penny for one is one of them simple and small is used in comparison to us as mere individuals. the doller is what we have came to be unexcepting of who we are. we over look the things we can do, a penny. and instead focus on the things we can\'t do, the doller. and when it seems that all is lost, and that we have gone all-around and out of our way, and are still left in the dark..... then, we see it that frail simple, little, dusty, penny. but by then its almost too late. but a piggy bank if given the chance can add up by taking each day to put one penny away. instead of trying to create a doller in one day. take time to enjoy life..... be a penny.....but thats what i think. |