{"id":4572,"date":"2015-05-17T10:36:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T15:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2015-05-17T10:36:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T15:36:22","slug":"wealths-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/heavy-stuff\/wealths-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealth’s Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"

~ Wealth’s Poverty<\/strong> ~<\/em>
\n ~<\/em>
\n We lie atop the sacrificial slab,<\/em>
\n and with our quill,<\/em>
\n our heart we stab,<\/em>
\n blood words upon our skin we scribe.<\/em>
\n Our hope?<\/em>
\n That others those blood wrought words<\/em>
\n will read,<\/em>
\n and from spiritual poverty<\/em>
\n be freed.<\/em>
\n ~<\/em>
\n The goal of every word<\/em>
\n we write?<\/em>
\n To free another from<\/em>
\n our plight.<\/em>
\n Our truths we see, we say,<\/em>
\n and for our truths<\/em>
\n we’ll fight,<\/em>
\n and from darkness,<\/em>
\n the willing<\/em>
\n we will<\/em>
\n drag<\/em>
\n to light.<\/em>
\n ~<\/em>
\n In the shadows do the wicked dwell,<\/em>
\n from whence the poor,<\/em>
\n with false hopes cast as arrows,<\/em>
\n they fell.<\/em>
\n With mistruth they bind the masses,<\/em>
\n spreading hopes of salvation,<\/em>
\n which they buy,<\/em>
\n then tell.<\/em>
\n Lottery promises of escape from poverty,<\/em>
\n they sell.<\/em>
\n Hopes, of freedom from this<\/em>
\n mortal hell.<\/em>
\n ~<\/em>
\n A piece of soul-scribed skin,<\/em>
\n from our flesh they flay,<\/em>
\n a map they intend to use,<\/em>
\n to help them find their forgotten way.<\/em>
\n ~<\/em>
\n We won\u2019t beg, or plead for the wealthy<\/em>
\n to stay.<\/em>
\n You see,<\/em>
\n our stolen words do the rich mislead,<\/em>
\n for though salvation’s map is true,<\/em>
\n the needle-eyed gate is one<\/em>
\n which rich thieves will never<\/em>
\n pass through.<\/em>
\n ~<\/em>
\n Peaks of luxury do the wealthy climb,<\/em>
\n while down below their workers wade in slime.<\/em>
\n With no excess sufficient to their unsated greed,<\/em>
\n they\u2019ve let this world slide and slip to seed.<\/em>
\n Loud do they their lying anthem proclaim,<\/em>
\n \u201cThere will always be the needy!<\/em>
\n So let them toil and bleed<\/em>
\n while upon their labors,<\/em>
\n we,<\/em>
\n the wealthy,<\/em>
\n feed.\u201d<\/em>
\n ~<\/em>
\n And yet unshuttered eyes easily do see,<\/em>
\n the rich have finally gone insane\u2026<\/em>
\n Their mad intent?<\/em>
\n To keep this broken world,<\/em>
\n the same.<\/em>
\n ~<\/em>
\n For their obscene wealth,<\/em>
\n the rich feel no shame,<\/em>
\n and on the burdened shoulders of the poor,<\/em>
\n heap they all blame.<\/em>
\n ~<\/em>
\n Unwanted garments from their shoulders slough,<\/em>
\n gourmet delights uneaten,<\/em>
\n left to rot,<\/em>
\n till from their banquet tables,<\/em>
\n once good food falls with a putrid<\/em>
\n plop,<\/em>
\n sustenance they\u2019ve let turn into<\/em>
\n slop,<\/em>
\n while from hunger<\/em>
\n they let the poverty stricken<\/em>
\n drop.<\/em>
\n ~<\/em>
\n When will we,<\/em>
\n the victims of wealth’s poverty,<\/em>
\n from our indentured slavery<\/em>
\n turn, not flee?<\/em>
\n~<\/em>
\n I fear<\/em>
\n not soon<\/em>
\n enough\u2026<\/em>
\n ~<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

~ Wealth’s Poverty ~ ~ We lie atop the sacrificial slab, and with our quill, our heart we stab, blood words upon our skin we scribe. Our hope? That others those blood wrought words will read, and from spiritual poverty be freed. ~ The goal of every word we write? To free another from our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[328,384],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heavy-stuff","category-poetry","tag-poverty","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}