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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