Poem: The curse of money
In the classroom of materialism
Money is everything
Power, wealth and wickedness
Money is the venom inside the vial of life
It’s not unusual for the best students of materialism
To excel in the art of selfishness, corruption and exploitation
It’s common for the teachers of materialism
To occupy the best parts of town
And drive the latest sports cars
It’s unusual for the pot of money to be dished in equal portions
To be consumed by the whole of humanity
The curse of money envelopes the heart of humanity
Now where did we go wrong?
We erected a monument of inequality in the middle of the world
And unleashed a world order that is addicted to money
We praised selfishness and encouraged the excessive accumulation of wealth
We called it capitalism, individualism and competition
We even erected a world economic system
That is driven by supply and desire/demand (selfishness)
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer
It’s the curse of money
That annihilated the heart of Man (Woman)
Pitting father against son, brother against brother
Mother against daughter and daughter against daughter
We saw the gap between rich and poor grow
As we continued to nourish the belly of inequality
We saw the arm of poverty
Choke our children
We saw the emergence of diseases
In the poorest corners of the world
We saw the hands of evil
Pour the cup of sorrow
Onto our households
We saw death
Inside our own homes
We are lost
Inside the house of humanity
©Kenneth Maswabi
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