Revolution Against Wealth

Revolution Against Wealth
© Surazeus
2024 10 26

Standing on corner of the busy street 
outside bright glass doors of the shopping mall, 
young man with desperation in his eyes 
declares to people shopping in clean stores, 
the wealthy men who monopolize wealth, 
and not immigrants, are our enemy. 

Though the sky turns dark as I look for hope 
I pray for blue wish of the glowing sun 
to reveal greed behind mask of the good 
so I know who my real enemy is 
in my daily tough struggle to live free 
and exercise the freedom of my choice. 

The immigrant searching for work to live, 
like my ancestors in past centuries, 
is not the enemy we should fear most 
for we are comrades in our daily work 
to shelter and feed our families with love 
so our children can gain greater success. 

The men who control resource of the land, 
and gain wealth from the hard work of our hands, 
are those who want to keep us all enslaved 
in system that benefits them the most, 
so they would replace our democracy 
with oligarchy of the wealthy few. 

Attempting to impose their tyranny 
that keeps us working to increase their wealth, 
they twist national economic laws 
to keep us locked with endless credit debt, 
imprisoned in world system they design 
to maintain the food-production machine. 

They vilify the hungry immigrant, 
who escapes tyranny in their own land 
controlled by gangsters fighting to gain power, 
to divert anger of the working class 
so you cannot see vile crimes they commit 
attempting to destroy democracy. 

If we unite against the wealthy men 
to fight for justice in freedom to choose, 
he declares to the interested crowd, 
but policemen arrive in flashing cars 
and disperse the crowd with bloody batons 
to crush their revolution against wealth. 

The young preacher who shouts, my name is Carl, 
remember me when you gain liberty, 
clutches his chest when the policeman shoots 
nine bullets that riddle his soul with rage, 
and he lies bleeding by doors of the bank 
as wind blows his dust into nothingness.