I would do everything she would ask,
Because  shes someone who has always hidden her pain with a mask,
Without seeing her my day is incomplete,
Because she’s  the reason why my heart beats .

For me she’s someone who has sacrificed everything ,
Because  she’s more powerful than a king,
For what she has done I would bend all day to touch her feet,
Because she’s the reason why my heart beats.

Sometimes she kills her wishes to complete mine,
Even when she’s sick she says  she’s fine,
From skipping her meals to make me eat,
She always gives a reason for why my heart to beat.

Whenever she sees me crying,
I see the inner her dying ,
Because  she’s  the one who feels the heat,
She’s truly the reason why my heart beats.

The day I was born,
There was a lady who got all her smiles on,
She was the first one to take me in her hand,
And till date she has always taken my stand.
I can’t ever thank her enough,
Because she gave my heart a reason to beat.
                                                 -Darsh Parekh

Your texts brought with them
Little busts of joy
I'm sorry I acted so coy.
Reading those words;
"I love you"
Boosted my self-esteem.
If I could be loved by you,
Then I'm worthy to be loved.
But then you destroyed me,
And now I constantly seek love and approval
From sources that don't even matter to me.
And that *****!

Poor people have different perception than rich people

A big understanding of value of things
We are affected by the cost of things

Rich people pay for cable TV
HBO
TIVO
Etc.
Watch only three channels a couple times a week

Have pools maintained year-round so it can be swam in twice
Laid next to bikini-clad Barbies on the handful of days their social calendar falls empty
With a temperature range of 68°-72°F
Bragged about in casual conversations just enough
So that every ear in a five-mile radius knows the cute Puerto Rican pool boys name

A mistake to them nothing more than an apology with a price tag attached
No problem is too big to bribe away

But less privileged folk know all too well how cause and effect work
Because we face the consequences of our actions
Big
Small

We go to libraries for entertainment

We do not cook more than we can eat
Because groceries cost too much money to waste

Wealth does not necessarily make you an ignorant or bad person
I think poverty does help make you a more conscientious person

You have no sympathy
as rumours flee
Spotlight's on
and facts act accordingly

Simplicity shows less shadow

Is it more just to be
As the price for the free
holds levels of uncertainty
Value your integrity
It is more to be just

"What are you doing
to better the world?
What value do you bring to society?"
"Those are not the right questions."
"Why not?
They're questions everyone asks."
"Maybe so. But they're meaningless if you can't answer another one first."
"Which is?"
"The right question is "what are you doing to better yourself?"
If you can't find value in yourself, if you don't think you're the best you can be, you can't be ready to better the world.

she was the gem
that shined bright
in your eyes;
but today,
you compared
her with trash

one man's trash,
is another man's
treasure;
perhaps you've
not seen her value,
or you're never a
lapidary to begin with

You will never know the value of something until you loss it they say, but that is if you're still alive. Because the very moment you lose your soul is the end of all value.I guess You will never know that,  for your soul holds all value and that you have lost it.

S. O sther
Valued soul