In Time of Greed


It’s mortuary time to a-tone deaf clock in
to the pawn fate
of warlock plans that bewitch angle bend

The hourglass is turned over again,
wearily watch the 
sands of your inhalation dwindling

In a despot time of greed,
second-hand puppets do the dying
Ag coin commodity bleed

Feel the avarice reign,
those tempestuous profit tears falling
Be the fodder battlefield fed,
pleb body debt chained

Intellectual properties acquired
in the gold piece accord
Condo hearts time share expired — 
Mortgaged souls 
got swept off the board

In a weepy eye time of need,
first class haves
deafly ignore the poor pleas

Cadaver cold tongues
toll the hell bells rung 
Burning that pulse promissory scrip
with pirate-pierced, profiteering lips

Feel the ageless pain of bosom misery
in this modern time of ancient greed
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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May 29, 2020 at 9:43 PM
Your alliteration, especially on 'pirate-pierced, profiteering lips' is so eloquently striking - and greed has been around since before the Bible, but you express it with such originality!
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April 19, 2020 at 1:24 PM
You are right and we see it all around us... As always your pen is so powerful..
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