(I have no beauty to weave around this, the truth has been stated too often. Someone else must write the song!)
Here’s the dream: get rid of greed
and relieve the poor and lower classes
of their burdens. Get rid of greed and
let peace spread around the globe.
Greed is the cloud that blocks the sun,
and rots roots that could feed everyone.
Without greed we’d share earth’s bounty
and find that cooperation ends scarcity.
Greed builds barriers to empathy and
blocks the best instincts of neighbors and kin.
Without greed nations could end treachery,
witness against hoarding and inequity.
The opposite to clouds of greed is love
and kindness, two forces whose
symbiosis would, in time, ground
diverse populations in peace.
For Mary's prompt "Last Night I had a Dream" at What's Going On?
Love and kindness...equity and justice...why are the simple things so hard, so complex and seemingly so unattainable...may whoever moves and shakes us all listen to your poem and to all our pleas. Greed is the cloud that blocks the sun. Yes. Yes.
ReplyDeleteYou have captured the root of the problem, Susan. Without greed everyone could flourish peacefully, helping each other to survive. But no, greedy nations (and their leaders) want more, more more. This is truth worth repeating: "Without greed we’d share earth’s bounty and find that cooperation ends scarcity."
ReplyDeleteYes, you have gotten to the heart of the matter - greed, at the centre of everything, including greed for excessive power. Sigh. My lifelong dream of peace is fading these days. We learn the hard way. Maybe on the other side of unthinkable suffering, the world will find a better way. We live in faltering hope.
ReplyDeleteWhat you write is so true. And I Love the close. Thank god that nothing is permanent in this world and I hope this negative time shall pass too.
ReplyDeleteI love those clouds carry hope - Jae
ReplyDeleteThe systems we live under are tailor made for sociopaths and the worst of us to thrive under. People do not accumulate obscene amounts of money and power by being nice. I don't know what the answer is.
ReplyDeleteWell said, Susan. Those who pursue power and affluence are the least deserving of it and the source of so much of our division and lack of peace.
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