Greed

Mr Pyjama

You live your life reaching for power
But you’ll die a selfish man
Soon you’ll be lying six feet under
And reaching for the sand…
The very ground walked upon
By a thousand needy men
The very souls you gave no hope-
You just ignore and pretend…
Pretend the world can be saved
With the fake chorus of “freedom!”
Then prevent free-choice throughout the world
As young women raise their children…
You know the world is very wrong
When the hypocrite throws the dice
And rolls another a double-six
And ends a thousand lives…
While the world sits back and waits
As the fascist holds the key
But ignores the thousand doors of hope
And unlocks the door for he…
While another child slowly dies
The big man lives his dream
The illness here is evident-
The disease is one of greed…
As you just laugh your life away-
Ignore the troubles in your hand
You live your life reaching for power
So you’ll die a selfish man.



Thank you for reading

Being Enlightened

Thank you for writing! I agree, greed is an illness, an addiction. The want of money and power is always selfish because to obtain it, one often has to lie, cheat, steal and step on others.

I really like the lines,
"With the fake chorus of “freedom!”
Then prevent free-choice throughout the world"
as we obviously know who this is speaking to. :rolleyes:

Politicians have to be THEE greatest actors on the planet! I just find it sad and baffling that people can be such blind followers and believe in manufactured bullshit!

Fox News is not the bible and GWB does not represent anything holy or just!!!

Anyhoo, I like a good politically charged poem and I enjoyed reading this, Mr. Pyjama! Nice to see you 'round these parts again.

Mr Pyjama

Being Enlightened wrote:

Thank you for writing! I agree, greed is an illness, an addiction. The want of money and power is always selfish because to obtain it, one often has to lie, cheat, steal and step on others.

I really like the lines,
"With the fake chorus of “freedom!”
Then prevent free-choice throughout the world"
as we obviously know who this is speaking to. :rolleyes:

Politicians have to be THEE greatest actors on the planet! I just find it sad and baffling that people can be such blind followers and believe in manufactured bullshit!

Fox News is not the bible and GWB does not represent anything holy or just!!!

Anyhoo, I like a good politically charged poem and I enjoyed reading this, Mr. Pyjama! Nice to see you 'round these parts again.

Thank you for the kind complements Beng Enlightened, and more so for remembering me! *is touched*

Indeed, i havent been on this forum for a good six/seven months now, but i thought i would escape the constant chatter about tour dates etc and read things of interest..
This place has changed quite a bit since then though, a lot of new names/absent of old names etc...I remember there once being a girl called Jessie? Of a girl may have been her screen name, and also ISN??

aaanyway, i'm rambling now.. thanks for your compliment again, even if it was the only one i received :( i do feel strongly about this piece, and i hope to be spending more time on here in the future, again.

nailz100

My guess was that its about "dubya"

lovin kind

sometimes the words they arent the same as the spirit
this finds a way to put our life in perspective
i believe in the saving spirit of gift
once in great while a voice has the intensity to make the heart know
that the vibration of god is workin its way around in there
and that all we go through is leading to our equality somewhere

this poetry home here is so very special to me but i cant hear or see you

i hope everyone has a place they call home
an altar of giving all away and feeling better inside because we should never stop thinkin about tomorrow