How Much Am I Worth?

Imagine a little penny

Old and rusting away

Doesn’t make much of a difference

It’s just one cent

It doesn’t hold real value, does it?

Well of course it has value even if it’s just a cent

Now imagine being that coin

Told day after day you don’t mean much

You don’t bring much to the table

That your one cent doesn’t count 

But you know

You are of such worth

Yet people just see you as one thing, useless

It hurts

It’s belittling

It make you forgot who you are

And that’s when believing in it 

Makes it your reality

Becoming what words they say you are

Making think you are nothing

“ Nobody is ever nothing” My mom told me use to tell me when I was younger

“ If you were nothing then you wouldn’t even be born

 I kinda of just laughed it off but she had a point 

 No matter who you are

 you are somebody even if society can’t see it

Those words gave me hope

In a dark time

When I  would look myself in the mirror and hate who I was 

I wasn’t smart enough

I wasn’t  pretty enough

I wasn’t like them

They compare me to someone’s standard I have never even heard of

But as I come to the realization

They can’t define me

Such words can’t label me as a person

It’s so easy to say that

Don’t look at how you’re valued by the world. 

Words can’t hurt you, quit being so dramatic 

Oh, just ignore them

Can’t they see 

How they judge, mock, and compare

Will they ever understand  

I am, we are so much more

I wish they could see

I wish they could know

I wish they could believe…In my worth