to be a success
you've gotta make your bones
it ain't larger or smaller
than what you own
if you made money
you made success
the two are conflated
over them we obsess
the purpose of wealth
is to ascend
to upper caste
and make dividends
but this is a treadmill
you cannot outrun
and after a million
you'll want a million and one
no one can protect
a house full of gold
when you heap up a pile
you're bound by its hold
and if you succeed in your amassing
others start to look like widgets
what were once human people
become means to raise your digits
when people become simple means
to operate on your worth
whether they feel or suffer
makes no difference to your mirth
and so success is what we make
money or human care
if you uphold the god mammon
then for yourself beware