The Love Of Money💰🎡
It ain’t the money, cash, the dough,
The ‘bread, the loot, the moolah’: wealth:
It is the love that is so
Dangerous to soul and self;
The pelf* just paper.
Not the need, but greed disguised
That fools the wise;
The craving, not the saving
That creates indifference,
Binds to blindness
Of what all the senses see:
Greed is inferiority:
Mark of one’s mediocrity.
The intellect knows “It’s only money!”
Yet one gets addicted to the honey
Of its power,
Voted ‘the man of the hour’.
It’s love of money sours health.
To hell with wealth!
The simple is, by far the best,
Arrests the pest*.
Money’s benefits can’t buy it.
Try it!
It’s a discipline
That wins –
Love of money is the sin;
‘Love’ that cannot ever win,
Will never win.
Let you, me, us begin
To lose this affectation
Bowing, cowing down to Mammon.
Starting now.
*pelf; money
*pest; plague
The Love Of Money 10.18.2018 Nature In & Of Reality; Our Times, Our Culture II; Arlene Nover Corwin
Arlene Corwin Poetry 