Everything Has a Price

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While looking down from my balcony view a depressing sadness washed over me. And I wondered what our world would look like when we no longer have the honeybee. The fake facade of civilization; advertises a neon paradise. But that illusion costs us; the fact is nothing is free; everything has a price. Cigarettes kill, and yet, they are still sold; corporate profits aren't based on good health. Big money doesn't care if you die coughing; each cough increases their bottom line wealth. In America, kids shoot kids in schools; yet gun control has been ignored for years. The N.R.A. bribes politicians with contributions that pad pockets, not tears.

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