Greed’s Sake

Public declaration that you plan to sue?
Why do you announce it, Mister Well-to-do?
Are you offering peace, do you need the hype?
Is that just an invitation for a bribe?

Could it be a cry for help? Have you lost your way?
Maybe you want to achieve media fame?
Filing a claim’s a cinch. No need to be smart
Where’s your pride Mister, settling out of court?

What a greedy bunch of humans we’ve become
When will politicians see that they’ve succumbed?
When will business giants admit they don’t care?
…When we break off our delusions of grandeur?

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Copyright © 2021 by Matt Antis. Originally published in Poet’s Guild’s Poem-A-Week on February 6, 2021, by Ink Jot Kingdom.

 
Matt Antis

Matt Antis creates online as a freelance writer and novelist who formerly lived as a serial small-business entrepreneur. His life’s goal is to share knowledge, encourage, and challenge others through a coach-student relationship.

An unexpected deployment with the Army in 2009 halted his scholastic achievement, but! He learned the bulk of business in the proverbial trench elbow to elbow with a team of professionals who he is forever grateful for.

When he’s not being a husband, dad, shooting his bow or training parkour, you can find him teaching Sunday school, advising parkour gyms, writing for inkjotkingdom.com and his wife’s children’s book website, whitneyantis.com.

https://inkjotkingdom.com
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