Sugar Coated Greed

A stone field full of steel and rubber.

Followed by greed and hunger.

Herds flock in and out like vultures.

Their hearts black and hollow like a void.

They come to fill that abyss within.

Only to make it deeper and darker.

And will never become full.

Ignorant to those who toil without end.

Silent pain gone unheard.

Unspoken rage forcibly chained.

Carts of woven steel jumbled and scattered like toys.

The masses may be grown in body.

And yet their minds remain immature.

With wits dull and rusted like iron.

Treasures that taste sugar sweet.

Unaware of the rot done to themselves and others.

With an ever growing desire for more.

A never ending struggle to maintain order in chaos.

A great task of constant effort.

Often resulting with little fruit to none.

Greedily they leech off hard efforts.

The many overwhelm the few.

Sweet smiles and words mindlessly tossed about.

Doing little to hide the deep rot within.

Blindly consuming to seek satisfaction.

And finding none from the mountains they've built.

Upon the day's end does the chaos settle.

Only upon the dawn's first light.

Does the cycle of sugar coated greed begin anew.