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HOW SELFISH
HOW SELFISH
Only a select few
Can spellbound the masses
It seems
We lift them up on a plinth
Made up of the new third estate
And glorify them as demigods
They walk not
But trample all underfoot
We are their slaves
Enthralled to them
We give them all
Unholy wolves
Swaddled in wool are they
Devouring all with their avaricious mindset
Greed corrupts
Dissolving all about
Leaving animosity in its trail
An inbred top heavy hierarchy
Collude to maximize exposure
With minimum opportunity
For those of the wrong caste
Politics
Economics
The arts
A few control the building blocks of society
Exerting undue pressure downwards
Maiming those they lord over
Stymieing their advancement
Pulling strings to advance their own cause
The myopic view of the elite
Is no way to run a democracy
A limited gene pool of ideas and talent
Hinders the legacy
That today passes to the future
A sure way for eventual extinction
A very sad prophecy
Selfishness and graft
Those boils that erode decency in a society
Harass the pillars of unity
Implosion being the only likely outcome
A rebellion will one day surely come
An impermeable ceiling of granite
Keeps those deemed not worthy in their place
Resentment festers
Rioting being the only billboard
That the oppressed then know
Those in the middle
Those supposed champions of the new economy
Are full of hyperbole
Their spiel of being undervalued
Naught but insouciant drivel
They seemingly forget
The power they wield
Blatant opacity of the distribution of wealth
Mangles the unity that the some for all mantra
Could achieve
No tricking downward to irrigate
The parched ambition and drive
Of the underclass
An unjust society we may live in
But we all contribute to the way
We live
Give
Take
But also let another man partake
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