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Open Poetry #39

Money

WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2006-12-17 12:32 PM

The greatest takers, users, abusers?
Money people,
money traders,
Business: industries and corporations.
Banks: debt kings;
polluters of minds, land, sea and sky;
twisters of reality; buyers of "love"
sugar-coated in ad campaigns.

Their money: worthless manipulated numbers
from high-rise dungeons.
What energy lies at their source?
None. For-giving no longer comes near
those gilded dens of impoverished thieves.
Kings of "greed";
who worship, live and die
at the feet of their idol: Mammon.
A burden so heavy to carry,
only bankruptcy can break them free
of their bondage!

Yet more jump in the gap,
raping and pillaging remnants
of natural resources and labor
for only these are real enough
to feed their drunken greed.

Have we reached the end?
Are we beyond a choice
as to whether "Money"
will consume earth
and sacrifice the last human?

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2006-12-17 08:49 PM

Good question!
It is scary that a small handful of people and large corporations own most of the wealth
and also apparently control most politicians.

An aside: thanks, for readin the Alaska permafrost write!

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2006-12-17 08:52 PM

damn, you just described my boss

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

3 posted 2006-12-17 10:28 PM

"Have we reached the end?"

good poem
good question WindWalker...

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