The meanest murder minus of machete, <br />Overwhelming greed blamed, sole bleeding knife; <br />Who held the knife? Manic men of market? <br />Fair lady herself—too much freedom rife? <br />To save her skin she this defence did make: <br />Infidels do breed their own tragic ends— <br />Oft making markets seem a sad mistake; <br />But here she used her own barest of hands. <br /> <br />No darling; not in fear, ye died of hate, <br />In greed of growth I guess, guilt-edged progress, <br />And yet, ere ye fall to thine destined fate, <br />I blame less Lady Greed, more her excess. <br />If bleed ye must ye shall bleed not in vain, <br />Should greed be girdl’d, rein’d in to restrain! <br />__________________________________________________ <br />This sonnet is in the form of allegorical satire <br />on the goings on of global market meltdown. The <br />sonnet’s structure takes its inspiration from Sir <br />Walter Raleigh’s ‘A secret murder hath been done <br />of late’. <br />__________________________________________________ <br /> - Sonnets | 08.11.08 |<br /><br />Aniruddha Pathak<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-murder-most-foul/
