What Is a Person's Value - What Is Their Worth
What is a person's value?
What is their worth?
Can it be based solely
On what is found in their empty purse?
Can that one missing emptiness...
Take away a person's pride?
Can it belittle,
The entire worth of their life?
Is there some value
In the light in their eyes?
Is there some value
for the past loves of their life?
Is there some value
In the all the books that they've read?
The knowledge that they've imparted
The words that they've said?
Do they get credit
For the beauty that they've seen
Painter of paintings
Dreamer of dreams.
Taker of photographs
Creator of life
Mother of children
Lover of life.
Lover of wisdom, of knowledge, of men
Friend to all people, both dark-skinned and light
Lover of humans
Meets all with delight.
Lover of all things
Both known and unseen
Champion of causes, of persons, ideals
Believes in the future, values every meal.
Is there some value
To someone who really loves life
Whose laughter fills every day
In spite of their strife?
To someone who looks to the heavens
Always amazed
Someone who has pondered the moon
And watched it go through its phase.
To someone who has held the earth in their hands
Who has felt the sun on their face
Who is raising their own children
Who puts on a brave face.
What is the value
Of one who has financially hit a wall
Who has often sat here and pondered
And tried to make sense of it all.
What is my Value?
What is my Worth?
Will I be valued solely
By what is contained in my purse?
Copyright Christine A. Kysely November 9, 2010
(c) Copyright 2010 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved
Copyright © Christine A Kysely | Year Posted 2010
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