but it's only a symbol of trust,
a currency representing time or labor,
a democratic voting on the worth of things.
We decide what it means, what we mean
when we trade for it or with it.
We decide what our time and efforts are worth
negotiating that with others
who have different estimates,
or merely want a bargain.
It is the symbol of worth,
of what we'll pay for what we want.
We know we can't buy a sunset,
so some of us think beauty should be free,
but it never is.
We say we can't buy love
but most of advertising preys
upon our wishing that we could.
We can't buy anything of lasting value
but the con-men of consumerism
keep feeding the belief that we can.
What's wrong with money
is its poetic justice
that most of us are
so damn gullible
and foolish enough
to pass on our stupidity
to our children.
So you want money to feel like poetry?
Just start laughing at it.
Start defying its hold upon you.
Realize the worth that can't be bought
and then money will be a fine playtoy
no matter how little you have
and you just might find,
once you understand its game
that obtaining it is easy.
Like love, as soon as you reach the point,
where you don't need it anymore from anyone,
then everyone loves you.
Then, and only then, are you safe to love.
Once you realize you don't need money for your well-being,
then it will be safe for others to invest in you.
Only then will you be trustworthy.
Money is the language of both trust and worth.
Speaking it without guile makes everything worthwhile.
People understand money, in a way they may
never understand love,
So write in the poetry of currency
and see if your grace and beauty
can be translated into the green,
and the clinking of cheap metal
merely become the tinnish cymbols
of potentially lasting realities.
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