CORPORATIONS [a poem]

Corporations and financiers are playing their role 

While taking an unproportioned toll
While we find ourselves in a black hole
They stay for ever in control

It was always this way

For this is their role to play
We would not be where we are today
If they were not there to pay

They are the oil and grease on which the world runs

Supplying mining jobs while selling minerals by the tons
And while they finance wars and make and sell guns
They still are the ones that feed out sons

Their God-given task is to be the driving force

But some leaders have taken a materialistic course
And while we are all betting this dark horse
We are drifting away from our source

Greed is good but in the long run it is wrong

For it makes only the personality strong
Our spirits are not singing this song
That can only take us where we do not belong

The corporate world should realise its place
In the big scheme for developing the race
They are the custodians in this time and space
Let’s hope they do not end in disgrace

They are supposed to supply a service to humanity

And not to satisfy their own greed and vanity
This is all now bordering on insanity
And it’s time to take a look at “Chris”-tianity

They are the movers and the shakers

But not their own lawmakers
They do not have to own acres
And neither do they have to be Quakers

But there are written and unwritten laws

That should make them think and pause
The next time they stretch their paws
Let there be a probable cause

EDGEA

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