Greed

Gold and riches have one form,

Greed make its manifest,

Takes his vessel of a weak man,

Insatiable, runs through his brain.

Hate becomes his last name,

He gives bricks to those without stones,

And seeds to those without trees,

Takes away a house just built,

And fruit away after it's picked,

Now he adds to his continuous need.

His space grows greater,

while his soul fades away,

The weak man grows strong,

In arrogance and lies,

Till his skin turns pale,

And a box is where he lies.

Greed has no conscious, heart or time,

He just sits and waits as riches and gold.

Reviews

[Robbie~xoxo~]

Greed... a damaging personality... nothing to gain...
In the end all the riches and gold cannot fill the Emptiness. Nicely done!

[Suditi]

The last two lines are a winner to me.
The entire poem is so well thought out..
So well expressed. I love your way of writing.

[InfiniteInk]

Thanks you've helped me grow.

[Graggz]

i like your poem very much man

[InfiniteInk]

Is Greed sometimes benevolent?
"He gives bricks to those without stones,
And seeds to those without trees,"
Represents the form of greed that gives to those without and when they make more than what they had, they take what they worked hard to EARN rather than just taking what they gave.
Banks show this form of greed all the time.
Think about people, institutions, governments who show this form of greed.
One of my most disliked forms of greed, a "giving" greed.

Thanks for your review!

[VannahBanana]

Your vocabulary is very strong. I like to see this whenever I read people's work. I enjoyed it immensely. The way you word things is very strong too. The only thing I was confused on was "He gives bricks to those without stones, and seeds to those without trees." Is that an act of greed? I see that sometimes, after I read a lot of writing all at once, maybe I don't see some things right, but I reread this and reread this and it didn't fit. Wouldn't he take from those who didn't have much? But, like I said, maybe I'm just still thinking about other writings.
Anyhow, (: It still, was very, very good.
I think I'm going to like your work. And if you'd like me to read anything, send me a read request, or if you'd like, send it to me in a message if you don't know yet if you want anyone else to see it.

Vannah