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17 May 2012 I’m curious… When the people have the power, And the powers that be infuriate the people, And the people act with their power, And they vote with that power, giving some away, And the ‘Golden Dawn’ is really a ‘growing wrong’, But the people can’t do a damned thing except realize they did wrong By inviting the Dawn into power with their own acts, And the new powers that be can’t change a damned thing Because the people are burning the nation in fury, I’m curious, what is power? I’m curious… When the ‘invisible hand’ dictates wealth, And my business becomes everybody’s business because, well, Because privatization means ‘all about me’ becomes all yours… for a price And ‘big business’ is no longer human in scale, It’s too obese to live forever and yet it needs to always feed on the hard earnings of others, And so the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, But the rich need the poor to feed their wallets and create more need to feed the greed, Because, how would fundraisers work without a cause? Still, the poor need the apparent kindness of the rich just to get by, And so I’m curious, what is wealth? I’m curious… When society needs a dictionary to know the definition of love, And the difference between it and lust, or infatuation, or plain obsession, And when the belief of love can evolve into hate, rape, murder, jealousy, and suicide, And other so-called ‘evils’… but perhaps they are necessary evils… For, would love be so precious and valuable if there was no deprivation for us to be freed from? When we need to lose to realize how much we loved the lost, And to have faith or to believe in you means ‘first give me a reason to do so’, And to love you means to love the way s/he feels like loving you, Not the way you need her/him to love you, I’m curious, what is love? I’m curious… When ‘want’ becomes synonymous with ‘need’, When we need to lose in order to understand that all we need is all we have, I’m curious…
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