Why is growth addictive?
we always seem to find a way
to ensure we are
never lead astray.
It is as if we can not stand to be
any less than what we define
as the best.
Money now defines us
do we work to live
or live to work?
The days we have seem to drag
the time slipping from our sweaty grip.
There was a time money was just a thing.
something that could be dismissed,
but here before you
is it not true to say
many people will die
Never really living at all.