Recession

Recession

A Poem by Michael


Recession
Bad recession
Bad recession causing depression
Recession and depression come in succession
Causing worsening of the economy, job losses
in progression
When people lose jobs they become depressed,
When they become depressed they lose ambition
Losing ambition increases depression but
Psychological depression will be an addition
to all problems that humankind has
besides suffering from oppression
Humankind works so hard because
life is not kind …so making money
is a very well known obsession
Regardless of their beliefs people
worship money, even Apollyon can’t understand
this new religion
Justice has committed suicide watching
fat CEOs gobbling a big commission
While
employee are being laid off and
becoming “nouveau pauvre” people
depending on social welfare condition
Recession
Is growing everywhere
Metastasizing to all households without sympathy
Knowing no remission
Recession
Is growing globally
Destroying children’s health, happiness and nutrition
While governments are watching it spreading
Not knowing what to do
Just sending a schizophrenic admonition
Blaming each other
Not knowing what to do
In this catatonic position
Not knowing what to do
Like a child in a state of regression
Big companies keep having bacchanalias
While apraxic economist try to evaluate
the stock market , mutual funds
but retirement  plans are vanishing in accretion
The free economy is in an anemic , arrhythmic audition
preparing for the big  demolition
a  reminiscent of… the great depression
Banks are still controlling
interest rates, mortgages, loans
using   every possible ammunition
The goal is an “arriere-pensee”:
Making the rich richer
And
Celebrating “ auto-da-fe”
of any poor person demanding confession
Everything is owned by banks
Either trough loans or foreclosure/repossession
When our soul is not big enough for this greed
We’ll go to wars, killing and destroying
While selling democracy with aggression
We’ll market humanity, we’ll finance freedom
and refinance victory to celebrate repression
Money will buy glory
Money and power are always in a coalition
Big castles will keep growing
Swallowing small houses by reposition
Recession keeps killing and stealing
While authorities are watching it
Not knowing what to do
Making new laws, incentive plans as a useless composition
Business cycles come and go
But the “beau monde” remains
unaffected, enjoying its spiritual circumcision
How can the economy survive?
How can the body survive if the brain has concussion?
And its spirit has been mutilated beyond recognition?
Is it the end?
The end of freedom, hope and dreams
How can love survive recession?
Bad recession causing depression
Bad recession
Recession




 

© 2009 Michael


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Michael
Michael

Houston, TX