Jenny Gegee: The Money (poem)

THE MONEY

I started to hear this word with 5 letters when I was in my mother’s womb

Though, I say it so many times

I didn’t start talking “Money” with my first word

I didn’t play to act like a rich girl when I was a kid

I did not complain about the lack of money when I had tough times

I could undergo sufferings with my spiritual strength

That is more powerful than money

I think the happiness doesn’t reside in money

We need to see it is impossible to buy peace with money

We can’t take the money with us when we die

You would see the money collected

With your evil deeds in your lifetime,

Disappearing transiently with a fire after you die

Do not regret for it

And you only must listen and believe in you

Your heart says that a spirit is the most powerful one

Then there will no need to worry about it

Nobody is born only for collecting money

There is a proverb “all covet all lose”

Endless love should flow from your heart only, not that of limited money

Give your love to others

Then you can feel peace

You never worry about recovering debts

Love is more important than money

But why money changes us and makes us heartless

Certainly, you have forgotten about heart

And it’s love

You do not want to think about eternal great happiness

Because you lose yourself in money

Love is what we are born with

But money is not

We grew up with love, but not with money

So we have a fate associated with love

We need to keep this belief in our hearts

Then we can take happiness with us forever

Then we can feel boundless happiness and peace.

*Jenny Gegee works as an English translator & Book Publisher in Mongolia. She started writing poems in 2013 and her first book of poetry “The Happy Lady” has been published both Mongolian and English. Some of her poems have been published in the Illinois State in USA, Turkey, Italy, Albany, Germany and India in poetry anthologies.She has translated several books from English to Mongolia and published in Mongolia and aims to write prose besides poems and introduce Mongolian literature to the world.

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