Poem: Power Struggle
Power Struggle
Human greed knows no boundary
You swim with the sharks or they wallop
you, skeletons and all.
It’s no use helping them to survive
by giving them money.
**
If you were to be a deva from Heaven
and you have unlimited blocks of gold
each the size of the bricks at the construction site
and every second you give this shameless man
one billion U.S dollars.
At the end of the 365th day
he would say : Ha, Ha, where has all the money gone ?
In broken English
He asks: How come all the money gone ?
Mr. So & So took them
Call in the police,
I want a through investigation
wake up, good citizens of the world.
**
Which are the devils deserving help?
Satans or
Can’t you sense the dangers
With these evil assholes?
Whose faces are painted with all the malicious deeds
they intend to carry out ?
They are stress-ridden, and blood-thirsty
They are jealous of others’ progress
Yet they are unwilling to move to a better place
Even if the place is freely allocated to them.
Do you still want to help?
**
The frog tells the Grand eagle:
Please drop me back to the pond
That’s my place
Otherwise
Why do all the saints live in the caves?
End
Copyright © 2004 by Poh Tiong Ho
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