The Danger Zone

Materialistic gluttons keep on feeding their desires
while their anorexic souls soon curl up and then expire.
While the greedy people hoard up all the newest, better, best
all the ones who know what life's about
keep on going and are blessed.

It's a shock sometimes when we can see
the things that show us reality
we wonder why this is how things are
and see that we haven't come too far

Men in power trading death threats, all we do is sit and watch;
out of fear we keep our mouths shut while we swill the finest scotch.
Never watching when the end comes, we just sigh and close our eyes
and we think it's not our problem but -
that's where the problem lies.

It's a shock sometimes when we can see
the things that show us reality
we wonder why this is how things are
and see that we haven't come too far

Enlightenment comes slowly to the ones that shut their eyes
and the end is so much closer than most people realize.
While the gluttons come and torture us with things they say we need,
I don't know which thing will kill us first -
the dropping bomb, or all the greed.

~CrimsonSoulFire
9/2002
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