Thursday, April 19, 2012

"V" is for.....

Jenny Matlock 

Some people place VALUE on what a person does
or they place it on what a person's worth
In times of yore it was placed not on the skinny
but upon those of us with some girth.

I myself find it all silly to VALUE
 on someone only for what they do
I choose instead to place my VALUE
on other things and look at life anew

Someone need not be rich
 to give out sage advice
and just because you are rich
doesn't mean that you are nice

Placing VALUE on someone
purely for reasons monetarily
seems to me to be backwards
and quite a bit contrary

For a person's VALUE should
be measured through their heart
For if not for compassion
this world would tear apart.

"I would rather take advice from a penniless prophet, then an enriched fool."

http://frommywickedwaystoturningaphrase.blogspot.com/

3 comments:

  1. "For a person's VALUE should
    be measured through their heart
    For if not for compassion
    this world would tear apart."

    ... beautiful!

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  2. In times of yore it was placed not on the skinny
    but upon those of us with some girth...

    Darn. I need to go back and live in past times.

    Okay.

    Geez.

    I'm being all kinds of narcissistic and shallow.

    Sigh.

    Great poem, Terry. Love your words and how powerfully you shared your philosophy of worth here.

    Thanks for sharing it.

    A+

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