Helping War and Silence

Money-oriented lives
seek the power to purchase
things
neglect the power to comfort
help, support, please, nourish
and love
people.
Money-oriented lives
serve corporations
give them power
drink their manipulated water
eat their junk
wear their slave-produced materials
consume their chemicals
breath their contamination
enrich greed-diseased directors
and help turn up the heat
on a sweating world
torn with angry steel
ravaged with violent fire
deafened with booms, bangs,
screams
and blooded silence.
People-oriented lives
produce love
and songs of the heart.
Money-oriented lives
produce war
and the silence
of dead songs
about bloodless love.

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“We can’t turn our backs on life,
but life can turn its back on us.”
Dartwill Aquila

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