used up wandering lost souls <br />are cast forth onto homeless <br />streets into desolate wasteland <br /> <br />selfishness greed <br />is the whip driving outcasts <br />into discarded cold streets <br />of destitute depression <br /> <br />the great unwashed <br />wither unnoticed <br />wall street is many leagues <br />guaranteed protected <br />from debris of her greed <br /> <br />wealth is elite <br />sanctuary <br />insatiable rich <br /> <br />are quarantined <br />from their riff raft <br />sweat shop workers <br /> <br />wealth is life lived <br />upon bent clock in backs <br />of industrial immorality <br /> <br />exploitation crimes <br />are lap luxury good! <br />check out millions <br /> <br />in fat gross salary paid <br />to hunger CO of chain <br />gang fast food companies! <br /> <br />empires are built <br />upon history scorched <br />face of invaded countries <br />continents peoples enslaved <br />resources plundered <br /> <br />despot rulers sit upon glory throne embodiment <br />of a world crippled legacy their destructive waste... <br />wars seizing lusted for territories time exhuming last <br />pound of flesh last drop of blood from victim conquered... <br />masses leaving soulless embalmed husks to fall as roadside dust! <br /> <br />television news reels time out <br />do not air latest cruelties in factories <br />residue third world discarded humanity <br />prey corporate campaigns <br /> <br />are wage slave maximum profit <br /> <br />management of metaphorical lacerated <br />bleeding backs testify to systematized <br />bean counter cruel extraction techniques <br />global worship of illicit accumulated proceeds <br /> <br />of sickness greed selfishness<br /><br />Terence G. Craddock (afterglows echoes of starlight)<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wandering-lost-souls-homeless-outcasts/
