Empty hearts, behind empty eyes <br />Empty promises and plain lies <br />Are the hallmarks of modern men <br />Politicians, bankers and businessmen <br /> <br />The success in life is all that counts <br />The access to power and big amounts <br />of money. Your king is cold hard cash <br />It rules your desires and drives your flesh <br /> <br />For money you kill with no remorse <br />While climbing to power, something much worse <br />Will be done to your very own soul <br />As the cost of barter, as the price of the toll <br /> <br />Not that you care, drained of emotion <br />Ready to do anything for a promotion. <br />The actors in a theater, shadows on a screen <br />Puppets in the hands of an evil machine <br /> <br />*** <br />March 1,2010<br /><br />Slava Olchevski<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/empty-hearts-behind-empty-eyes/
