Colin Mitchell Williams Poet Free verse

Ego Gold

Ego Gold

All the accoutrements
Bolster self-images
Polished epitomes of self-aggrandisement
Glittering gold possessions
Are the necessities
Of self importance

Makes me smile
For this puddle shallows
Can be stepped over
So easily

A golden bangle
Appeases this living vacancy
Expresses wealth so readily
All its solidity
Materiality
Reflects in its shinning
Empty

Defined heart by plastic
Fantastic advert
Of slick rolling machinery
Means nothing to me
Derives by default
A slavery
Of squandered life

Money
Definition of success
Is thought to be
The diamante of living happily
Retards the senses
Divorces the spirit
And burnishes indifference's smile
To the paltry lives
Of others

I have
The mantra of a
Golden ego

I have 
And become the effigy
Of ego’s worship

I have
Describes the soulless
So easily

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Carrie Richards January 11, 2009 at 5:53 PM You have expressed the mantra of toooo many! I agree...you said it perfectly! ~ Carrie

Kristin Reynolds January 11, 2009 at 4:03 PM That last verse - yup, pretty much sums up 99.9% of the population, at least that is how it seems to me, one who is forever swimming against this tidal pull to have this and that - I go out of my way to not have this and that! Thoreau is my hero here, on this subject, I'm with him. less is more. the end. Love, me