Greed

Robber Barons

Judgment cometh and that right quick

as Wall Street is handed it's hat

The masses have had all they want

of the bankers who now grow fat

 

This week financial lids blew off

they protest the capital falter

Heart and soul of America

calling for blood upon the altar

 

Their pensions are all washed away

the river has stolen their future

Legacies left to great grandchildren

that bleed with every suture

 

The bankers should be commended

for the way they have stolen our dough

For once they lived up to their creed

showing us all their brand new low

 

What most are now upset about

that we were promised we wouldn't pay

Till our grandchildren all grew up

after we had all passed away

 

Today the masses took Wall Street

to find Robin Hoods evil twin

I thought they might tar and feather him

as they had done to his past kin

 

It wasn't long till the preachers

were stirring the seeds of discontent

Turning the heat up on the stew

hoping ingredients would ferment

 

We need not blame our religion

for the blow we now take on the chin

We knew they were snakes when we met

then opened the door to let them in

Author's Note

We all knew this could not go on forever. But human nature being what it is. We turned a blind eye to the politicians who spent our futures in earnest. We are not gods. We cannot take in 200 billion a month in taxes, then spend 340 billion a month on our hearts desire. Our beautiful country is mortgaged to the hilt. The ride is over and we now face the Reaper. The architects of our disaster will now have to face the throngs of the dispossessed. They may find they bit off too much this time. It seems the people want their country back!

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

Your words are true in the Author's note. USA need to be ran like a business. If you read the budget. A lot of income going to places most people would not understand. I counted 346 billion in aid. for military to 40 countries. Time to watch the nickle and dimes. Wall Street did not do us in. Big pocket politicians did. Mrs. Obama took her family to Africa for seven day vacation. Spend close to 2 million for the trip on Air force one last month. We are fool's for allowing this. Thank you for the strong words and old photo.
Coyote

[cecil]

your words unfortunately are real and full of truth beyond what many want to believe,, and as long as we let professional politicians run our country ,,,it will always be so,, we need to get some average people inside the political field,,,,they say we have not the skills,,, although our forefathers were not profesional politicians,, and they started this country right and then they took us down a terrible road and deeper into the ditch beside the road,,,,Blessings...Cecil

[jimmy]

when i saw the title to this poem i knew i had to read it, and though it wasn't EXACTLY what i'd expected, i was no less impressed, and i found myself no less empathetic.

[Manpreet]

A very forceful poem. I support all all thoughts expressed. This is a call for awakening.

[Taji Herbert]

i have been off this site for quite sometime and this was a great read to come back to i can only applaud...

[Dahlia Phoenix]

Impressive. I am into politics and this poem relates so much. The honesty of how things are affecting the market left to right. This reminds me of the peaceful protest in New York which was almost four days and the police decided to use their power to beat them. Sad really. I watched the footage and it made my heart quench to see how low people have become.

This poem though is incredible. I like it for its bluntness and yes, once we let greed come in; its hard to make it go away unless you take away what's causing it.

[Branch Isole]

Avarice is a self serving epidemic in today's society. Those who have accumulated the most are merely the poster children of man's nature as shown in this poem.

[RM Americano]

#occupy

[Zeitgeist Manifesto]

Expressed in extraordinary fashion.
Another great work of provocative thought.