mammon


profit over people


profit is the standard choice
over people who may feel
offered is the basic deal
that you, not we, rejoice

human value here
looks like love and care
to hold another's prayer
to make them feel dear

and the allure of money
is to gorge yourself aglut
in preeminence to strut
and walk where it's always sunny

with a comprehensive view of just
how far there is to fall
what makes most sense of all
is to make money as a must

that money eclipses
all other things
our tender sings
of our care in ellipses

by ourselves we're seen
but never seen by others
we turn away from one another
and love we do demean

this is us self-harming
our so-called moral fibre
making paeans to the briber
whose golden voice is charming