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

[Candice.Renee]

you blew the lid off this write. yes preach this gospel and let those who have not seen the light run toward it through your pen. most writes about this subject have fell flat in my eyes but you my dear hit this on the head dead on. i loved this.

[Dayran]

The wall street protests are quite a phenomenon in a nation that has led the world in the exercise of free enterprise. There will be lessons to be learnt from this. The message seems to be one of seeking greater meaning in relations as against cultivating a showcase about everything we do. One is never too big that they can't fine tune or review something that has outlived its usefulness. Common sense always prevails.

[caitlin]

There is such truth and power in your words. Such a well penned piece. It's sad how far humanity as a whole has fallen because such a treacherous thing as greed. Unfortunately, we have no one to blame but ourselves (all men), and sad as it may be greed will never go away no matter how much we protest against bankers or wall street, etc., because we have become far too addicted to it. Great piece you have here.

[Miss Marie Riorden.]

It's quite the oddity. A friend and I are talking about this subject right now.
Nicely written. :|

[Rick Puetter]

Dear Tate,

A very timely poem. This is certainly a time of soul searching. Past behaviors are not saving the day. We've (the world has) been on a course of disaster for some time. We are going to have to let companies and countries fail. We have to cut losses now or we will simply extend the current growing weakness into the future. This is a painful realization and we jointly as the world's people don't want to hear this ugly news. But the news is ugly and that's just a fact. I really wish we had a crystal ball and could see our way out of this, but such clairvoyance simply doesn't exist.

Let's all pull together and hope for the best.

Rick

[Kenneth The Poet]

Beautiful work, Tate. Nice polemical work.

[KATHY SUE SILLS]

Masterfully written with nothing but truth!

[~Blue Fantasy~]

Tate. this is an amazing brilliant piece!! You have said it all in this poem that we have gone through and what has happened! Thank you for writing such a truthful piece here....so it leaves us all to wonder what will happen next??

[Winslow Des Totes]

Absolute genius!
I love the structure and how well it flows evenly. Amazing diction as well, emphasizes a much needed point to all this turmoil! Excellent write! I especially liked the ending;
"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."
Terrific! A new favorite!