What is truly important
In this life?
We all
Should ask ourselves
This question
Each day
Yet
It seems for most of us
This question
Is seldom asked
And
Sometimes
Not asked at all!
For all of us
Our moments
Our opportunities
To do
What we really want
To do
Be who we really want
To be
Are running out!
Yes
Time ticks fast
Weather you waste it
Or
Not!
I see it
Day after day
In the faces
Of
People I encounter
Who have grown old
And
Impatient!
They become
Angry at the casher
Because they had to
Wait two minutes longer
Than they believed
They needed to!
I can only think
By
Their behavior
They know
The end is near
And
They have most likely
Wasted their time
In this world!
They have not done
The things they really
Wanted to do
In this life!
They have not taken
A chance on a dream!
At some point
They should have asked
Themselves
What was truly important
To them?
I see it in the rich too
All the money in the world
And
Never truly happy!
Money means little
In the end!
I’ve done
Countless labor jobs
The owners come out
To inspect the progress
It’s almost
Always the same
Wedding rings
Turned upside-down
On their finger
Afraid to showoff
Their sparkling diamond
To
The dirty laborer
Me!
I can only think
All that wealth
Has done nothing
But
Buy you fear of your
Fellow human being!
They want so badly
To be remembered as a pillar
In the community
Not realizing they are
Remembered more
By the people
They walked on
To become wealthy
The people that sold
Their best years to them
For minimum wage
Used up their bodies
To put food on
Their family’s table
All while the Pharaoh
Counts his gold!
From my book, When The Cedars Shade Your Grave
