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If Money Could Buy Life...
Contributed by
Zeldianus
on
Monday, 2nd May 2005 @ 11:49:08 AM in AEST
Topic:
Lifepoems
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If Money Could Buy Life…
If money could buy life, where would we be?
How much more would we value it if someone else held the key?
I have read the account of many a man who knew of a time
When this unspeakably horrid crime
Held true. A pity it is that I did not hear it from them firsthand.
But here, have I set forth one to help you understand:
“Surrounded am I in a building so gray
With walls of coldest steel that not even the light from the day
Can penetrate the prevailing sense of death in the air.
Month after month I must visit this Godforsaken place;
Each time further adding to the despair
That consumes me as death consumes the dying.
I have never felt such disgrace
As I do when I must go in there.
The twin doors: one marked rich, one marked poor.
Oh, how much of a whore
This makes me feel next to these wealthy folk
With their elegant clothes and golden flair.
I am always wondering if I will acquire the money
To satiate my feelings of anxiety.
In the past I have made it by the hair on my neck.
But now my life is a total wreck.
The money that I have striven
So hard to gather must now be given
Away to the clerk at the desk.
She holds out her greasy palm
And I give her all that I have in as calm
A manner I can muster.
Seeing that I do not have what is required,
Her face becomes all a fluster.
By the look in her face I know that my life has expired.
A guard on the left, a guard on the right,
Come forth to trap me in my inescapable plight.
Into the back room I am led by the hand.
The door closes behind me and I am told to stand
On the back wall to await my certain doom.
A blindfold is placed on my face,
The click of the gun rings out, followed by the boom
Sent at blinding speed to erase
Me from history.”
This way of life is long since gone
But its effects will linger on
For many more years to come.
Let this chronicle be a lesson and a warning
To all those that are afraid of this way of living:
To sit around and do nothing will only lead to disaster,
Whether it be in this form or one much worse.
Copyright ©
Zeldianus
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2005-05-02 11:49:08]
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Re: If Money Could Buy Life...
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by ForeverAlone on
Monday, 2nd May 2005 @ 05:25:51 PM AEST
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I like that way is flows and all Seth, but the structure tends to make an eyes strain in reading it...no other complaints and I liked the messege in this one..
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Re: If Money Could Buy Life...
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by Jord on
Thursday, 27th August 2009 @ 01:32:06 PM AEST
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| Pretty meaty poem here. I like it. Interesting structure. Somewhat representative of the world economy at the moment! |
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