Who takes pride in a measley division in
No better than the miser who covets others’ provision.
And he thinks that the power of quantity
The dumbing down of all and sundry
The masses, the tabloid rabble, with fierce names
“Does power the engines of progress?”
So that there come to sway over them
A lesser Napoleon, from a lesser tale
Who taunts at a religion
That makes the rich the brother of the poor
That makes wealth not sought for.
A burden, more burdensome than ever before
Instead a perfectly mercantile society, where there is no division
No cat/ mouse, no counter revision.
No proletariat- bourgeoisie schism.
Just a people who revel, each, in the giving.
A Nation built on one commonality
That each is equal
But much more so
those that live in poverty.
The engines here are not for one over the other
The engines here are for one giving to t’other.
END
Western society sees the division between rich and poor as being a necessary evil that spurs progress. But not so Muslim society which makes the rich man the brother of the poor man.
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