Syllabic Poem| The Culminating 30
The Dark Call of Greed
Crushing people with unbridled capitalism

Dark Calls to Night Curses Any light Breaking Into dawn New life Beginning Its enemy Driving it forward Wanton contempt For the innocent It sows its deadly seeds Gluttony, envy Insatiable greed Stealing what it does not earn Cheating unsuspecting The poor and the unwary Manipulating the system To ensure the right to be The king-pins of society Cost does not in the least concern it Casting humanity aside People simple chattel to consume And none of them could ever conceive it For most dare not think of greater things They eat their Raman noodles to make it Swim as fishes exhausted against the stream Hoping that dawn indeed will break today.
Capitalism, carefully considered and executed can be a very effective system. But when it is abused by the few and manipulated to concentrate all the wealth in so few that the average person cannot thrive, it becomes evil. It takes on a life of its own that must be reckoned with before it destroys the core of our human family. It must be taught to serve humanity, not to enslave us.
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