A Penny For Your Thoughts

Though I am small

Todays world revolves around me

You need me for food

You need me for water

You cant live without me

Yet still

You throw me away

On the ground

Into fountains

Even in the street

What are you thinking?

Sometimes you even burry me under your plants

I am NOT a rusty nail

If only you could learn to save me

You would not believe what outstanding ideas and dreams you could accomplish

But wait...

Don't be fooled

Too much of me is just as bad as too little

I corrupt innocent beings

You can become blinded by fame and fortune

And slowly

You began to forget who your true friends and family are

Until someday when you awake from your nightmare and fathom

The only people that can fathom to be around you

Are the ones you pay to do so

You don't want that... Do you?

Balance me within your life

Don't conform like many others before you

Make receiving me a pleasure

Use me wisely

For i am somewhat hard to earn

Next time when you see me

On the ground

Heads or tails

Don't be afraid to pick me up

It might just happen to be the first day

Of a new beaming

I am a penny

-McKayla J. Martinale