Bernard Barclay Poet Narrative

I Don't Want

I don’t want anything from anybody 
I’m not asking for your money
What I am saying is you have the power
You could invest as families 

You could invest in groups of three thousand
You could invest, creating employment for your children
You could invest, creating employment for yourself 
Even children could invest in creating their future 

Even a child can earn ten dollars per week
Baby sitting, mowing lawns, doing their chores 
Saving in groups of three thousand
Ten dollars per week becomes 
over one and a half million dollars per year

Do the maths 
Three thousand times ten equals thirty thousand 
 Thirty thousand times, fifty-two weeks 
equals one million five hundred and sixty thousand 
You could buy houses and create jobs

Enough to buy three houses
Or one small business 
One hotel 
Perhaps a camping ground 

Investing together, you can create employment 
You can create family wealth 
You can create futures for your family 
One and a half million dollars 

Creating lives for yourselves 
People complain of struggling 
People complain about the world 
But what can I do, they say
I am only one person 
I can’t change the world 
But saving together 

Even a child could change the world
Three thousand children saving together 
Could buy houses, could buy hotels 
Could buy companies and create careers 

Careers for themselves in their future 
Working parents investing together 
Could create career futures for themselves 
Those hotels need a manager 

They need people to work the bars 
They create employment for people in need 
Thousands of groups of three thousand 
Could change the world 

Working together, you could create 
Desalination plants and use drip irrigation 
To reclaim desert land growing crops feeding people 
Investing together, you could create employment 

For the unemployed 
A mother watches as her child dies of starvation
Creating employment would give her a wage 
The money to buy food and feed her starving child

We complain about the lives we don't have 
Instead of creating the life we could have 
We complain about the wealthy 
Becoming wealthy, the elite are ruling the world 

But you are the customers creating the demand for cheap
that has companies moving into third-world economies 
To provide cheaper products, the rich are just puppets 
to meet you, the customers' demands

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