MATERIAL DESIRES [a poem]

The Piscean Age has been the expression

Of material production and commercial expansion
The salesmanship of the products of human skill
And religions for which we will go out and kill

We are educated and brainwashed to believe

That this is essential to happiness and relieve
From poverty and misery all over the world
And part of the vision of the future new world

The old simplicity and true values have been temporarily

Relegated to the background so that we can voluntarily 
Engage the necessary path of materialism
To awaken our sense of globalism

Through the planning of the Hierarchy of Wisdom

Who planes our way to the Spiritual Kingdom
This was permitted to continue through human fascination
Thus bringing the people to the point of saturation

The world situation is expressive of our concrete woods

Where possession and the multiplication of material goods
Constitute a handicap and are no indications that humanity
Has found the true road to happiness and tranquillity

This spirit of possession and aggressive taking

Of that which is desired through bad decision making
Has proven widely inclusive and can be found
In nations, races and individuals abound 

Aggression in order to possess has been the keynote

Of our civilisation to keep it and everybody afloat
During the past fifteen hundred years
And will still be responsible for many tears  

Commercialism is doomed, but not yet dead

Painting the immediate future with dread
This lesson is being learned, and the revolt
For simplicity, will strike like a lightning bolt

With the industrial-military-complex, money is king

And by now we are all aware what this will bring
Start to spiritually empower yourself
And the world will take care of itself

EDGEBA

 

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