Of Fools and Gold

You delight in our ignorance.

 

We become your marks, mere targets of opportunity,
We are fool’s holding gold.

 

Our simpleton ways betray us,

Our ways never produce greatness and wisdom.

In our simplicity, we see your world and it is our heart's desire.

 

You laud one another with accolades praising your
Wealth and prowess.

 

Modest living and traditional values
Pale against your uptown, high-rise condominiums,
MBA Ivy League Degrees, valet parking, and Rolex watches.

 

You delight in our ignorance.

 

You want and you will have, you desire and you will hold -
But our contentment confounds you.

 

Your EBITDAs, Deltas, Gammas, and margin spreads,
Together with a whole host of short sellers and hedge funds,
perplex the common man.

 

Do you have an answer now? What of your own wealth at this moment?
Your pride has gone before your fall.

 

Your MBA failed you.
It shines like a beacon on your folly.  It shines upon all your foolishness.
It illuminates the fatuity of your profession.

 

I delight in your ignorance.

 

Your world has crashed.
Your great wisdom and MBA have no answer for this crisis.

 

These trappings of your world
Encroach upon my habitation.  Your world brings hardship upon my family.
You have taken my gold in faith and have left me in poverty.

 

In the morn, I watch the dew kiss the autumn leaf,

And I will thank God for my family.

 

I will work hard for honest pay.  I will sleep soundly and eat heartily.
I will not lament your thievery. I will not resolve to retribution.
God has granted me contentment.

 

I delight in your ignorance.

 

My home is filled with peace.  Truth and trust go before me.
My spirit is not broken.

 

My vengeance is served by your own hand.

As your world swallows you up, you will look up with bewilderment,
And see the greatness and wisdom of our simple lives �"

 

And it will be your heart’s desire.

Reviews

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such intense powerful words , its quite frightening...........such firm stance, its overwhelming,yet endearing, but terrifyingly haunting. !