Greed

A child I do not know his citizenship travels nations rummaging, rampaging he has no origin but has relatives but the child knows not how to share Omnivorous, carnivorous and ruminant his teeth grinds anything; canal receives all At table everything runs to his open mouth mindless of tears that roll, tongues that curse This unknowable child gathers all to himself wealth and power shiver when he appears he’s master-never servant, never charitable with open gullet he strips society naked Governed by appetite amused by egotism even eternity can’t fill empty bowl of greed