As always, I received the words to this poem non-stop in just minutes …

Pay attention to what matters
Before all you value ends in tatters
Hear our voices
You all make choices
As the wind blows, the leaves it scatters

Blessed are ye
With a family
To have and to hold
To live with and grow old
The gift of loving company

But in your striving to do more
You sometimes close an open door
You fail to give the proper attention
The love that matters you fail to mention
And those denied are left keeping score

Your priorities must you organize
What matters most must you realize
Before what’s most valuable to you is lost
The love you’ve hidden you must defrost
For those you love are life’s greatest prize

Yes, a job is important, this is true
In your world the bills come due
But never ever take your sight
From those who love you day and night
Those who by love are linked to you

“Family first” is a popular phrase
See it clearly through the haze
For in the thirst to get ahead
Too many leave their love for dead
So set are the workers in their ways

Money and power your life it rules
In your toolbox, they are the tools
But what’s truly important never forget
Fill your future not with regret
Those you love are life’s greatest jewels