The Tears We May Have Caused

 

          If we could count the tears
            that may have fallen because
             we didn't take time to think of the one
                                                          we ignored..
           If each one were worth
             a penny, we might never have
                to face financial insufficiency
                                                     ever again.
           Sometimes we speak in anger,
              But too many times we race forward,
                  not thinking about our words and
                                                      the sting
            that causes the tears to fall uncomforted.
                How sad to wait until we stand by
                  a coffin to realize these unchecked
                                                        words
            Had many times caused those eyes, now
                closed in eternal, restful peace, to shed    
                   tears because we had selfishly allowed
                                                           our simple
               needs to go our own way to outweigh the
                 needs that had caused those painful
                    tears of the ignored one to fall.