Price We Pay

Everything is what it is.

The price is what Man perceives

when he puts

greed over need.

He personified gold

but it’s just a metal;

impersonal, detached, and removed.

Midas lost her, his most precious

when his need succumbed to greed.

How much land does one need?

He ran first to

a homestead stake.

Surpassing need over greed,

and the idea to possess,

he ran like a man possessed.

When he outran himself,

he had to settle six feet

u

n

d

e

r

.

Bills in her mattress,

money in the bank

off shore accounts

to acquire, hoard, and block.

Financial pundits

ignore glaring fact.

Bills never circulate

in the hands of a few.

Greed transforms

the once glorious

dollar bill

to mere

toilet

paper.

Greed transforms

a man possessed

to biodegradable dust.

Greed barters

life’s warm breath

to shining, cold metal.

Greed

soils

Greed

spoils

Greed

uses

life

like

virgin

toilet

paper

over

and

over,

without

realizing

we’re

flushing

humanity

d

o

w

n

till

it’s

all

over.