Do you bend to pick up pennies
Or simply pass them over?
Will you only make the effort
If heads is showing up
And you think that some great power
In the center of all being
Has placed it there before you
As an offering of luck?
Nickels, dimes and quarters offer
Much more worthy quarry,
As some poor fool's misfortune makes
Another person's day,
And though no one builds a fortune
Finding change among the rubble,
No harm is done retrieving it
And putting it away.
To those who think the effort
Too demanding for the prize,
Whose ego will not let them stoop
For such a paltry fee,
Perhaps these lofty values
Are just misdirected pride,
Or perhaps it's sloth preventing
Them from bending at the knee.
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Or simply pass them over?
Will you only make the effort
If heads is showing up
And you think that some great power
In the center of all being
Has placed it there before you
As an offering of luck?
Nickels, dimes and quarters offer
Much more worthy quarry,
As some poor fool's misfortune makes
Another person's day,
And though no one builds a fortune
Finding change among the rubble,
No harm is done retrieving it
And putting it away.
To those who think the effort
Too demanding for the prize,
Whose ego will not let them stoop
For such a paltry fee,
Perhaps these lofty values
Are just misdirected pride,
Or perhaps it's sloth preventing
Them from bending at the knee.
Lulu Storefront: http://www.lulu.com/dsmartin
Amazon Author's Page: http://www.amazon.com/Dennis-S-Martin/e/B004SXY4LG/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1394055582&sr=1-2-ent
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