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Money

What defines you as a person

As a man

As a woman

It is not your money

Nor your car

It is not the house you live in

It is not the things you own

You are not the clothes you wear

You are not your weight

Nor you height

You are not defined by your job

What makes you less

Or greater than the next person

For society to make you believe

That to achieve greatness you must be rich

But riches leave you with nothing

Is a man with power any more

Likely to be better than one on minimum wage

A man makes more than he can spend

Pulls up on a 2014 Lexus

He rolls up his window

To ignore a beggar

A cashier trying to make ends meet

Pulls up on a beat up 2000 Pontiac

Running low on gas

Waiting for the next paycheck

Here's a dollar its all I got today

And all I got

Is more than what he has

He gets to eat a hamburger today

Because of that last dollar

So your money can mean it all for you

So you think you're a big success

But you are not defined by your money

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ana-llanes
Mexican
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Jan 24, 2014
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