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Greed ... Satire


Luke 11:39 New King James Version (NKJV)

39 Then the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and dish clean, but your inward part is full of greed and wickedness.

 

An animal called greed kissed by insecurity

 

I wished you were from outer space

from a place far and unknown.

Maybe I could sent you back

from here where you belong.

 

You took over industry

and our country long ago.

A long time you it kept hidden

but now you’re fully grown.

 

You rule without shame all around

and interfere in everyone’s life.

You justify all things you touch

and destroy everyone in strife.

 

There is nothing you won’t contaminate

nothing can stand in your way.

The powers that you accumulate

force most every heart to stray.

 

You showed up in concentration camps

through wars and governments.

Your palaces stink like hell

while the poor just sleep in tents.

 

You touch every heart it seems

even many in the “church”.

You help justify the call

through comfort and the purse.

 

It only took you a few months

to conquer my work place.

You came out of hiding

to show your ugly face.

 

You said you wanted us to rule

and be a team of sorts

but one by one you kill us off

like a child that you abort.

 

You’re not satisfied to suck our brains

you wants us to kill each heart

as insecurity in the work force

show the lowest who they are.

 

We now by instinct try to survive

compassion is dead and gone.

The team that was or was to be

was from the start stillborn.

 

So line them up against the wall

let them stand hand in hand.

Then mow them down mentally

to appear like a team in the end.

 

Jan Wienen

 

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