Year Gone By (Poem)

Days they fly, months go on by 

Before you know, end of year is nigh

What have we done? what achieved?

For our souls, an answer we need...

It's not the riches, not your fancy cars

Not the house you pride, nor gold bars

How human have you felt this year?

Be it a warm heart or a painful tear...

Did you love all in? did you lose it all?

Did someone hold you, despite your fall?

Lives we touched, day in and day out

Held loved ones, prejudice without...

What matters not, how many clapped

Nor a gold crown, round the head wrapped

The ones that stood, through thick and thin

Those decide, did you lose or win...

It's not the riches, not your fancy cars

Not the house you pride, nor gold bars

Love in your heart, true measure of pride

Never forget, for its who you are inside...