Your clothes, your cars, even your home <br />We judge success on the things we own <br />So corrupted and so confused <br />Young minds getting utterly abused. <br /> <br />Can you not see that we’re all slaves <br />Working ourselves into early graves? <br />Working to buy things we don’t need <br />Caught in the shadow of our own greed. <br /> <br />Obsessed with objects out of reach <br />Deaf ears don’t hear the words wise men preach? <br />We must be victims of some hex <br />As we watch foul adverts of fake sex. <br /> <br />Filling our guts with tainted feasts <br />Whilst we live like wild, barbaric beasts <br />Confined in a cage of brick and glass <br />Whilst the rich live their lives in first class<br /><br />J.A McManus<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/first-class/
