Fund Social Growth

Fund Social Growth
© Surazeus
2024 12 29

The most powerful people always die 
so other people fight to take their place, 
ambitious men hoping to outwit Death 
by climbing pyramid of social fame 
as they ascend to bright immortal realm 
only to collapse and dissolve to dust. 

Though men, who sit by fireplaces and watch 
ambitious men fight for power of fame, 
write their names in the history books 
to chronicle their political games, 
their names and nothing more are left behind 
for they all will die, forgotten by time. 

Therefore I decline your offer of cash 
and public support for me to campaign 
for higher office in the government 
where I could effect with legal programs 
social change for common people to strive 
with equal opportunities for wealth. 

Though I have written nine best-seller books 
describing in detail social reforms 
which progressive architects could design 
to adjust process of productive wealth, 
I have no complex diplomatic skill 
to orchestrate opposing points of view. 

Detailed blueprints for how to reform laws 
which I presented in best-selling books 
have been ignored by government elites 
because they do not want to implement 
fair social system that would equalize 
every person regardless of their class. 

The powerful oligarchs who control 
fiscal accounts that could fund social growth 
prefer to keep the common folk suppressed, 
for weak and hungry men desperate to work 
are easy to manipulate through greed, 
keeping the masses enslaved by false hope. 

They defund education and health care, 
cripple unions, and break social welfare, 
because people, uneducated and poor, 
are more willing to work without complaint, 
so plans for social reform I designed 
are worthless fantasies they will ignore. 

I fought for many years to institute 
far better system of equality, 
but rich oligarchs I have long opposed 
have gained control of our people and land 
through bloodless coup of willing money slaves 
who deserve the hell where they are now trapped.