AN ODE TO THE WEALTHY (2026)

When you can join the workers
To produce the things we need
Such as clothes shelter, even diversions
And the foods on which we feed

When you can cease to prey on
People of weaker might
Perhaps you can truly claim
Your views and values right

When you can stop lying
To the world to mold its views
In favor of agendas
That benefit only you

When you can acquire honestly
And cease your fiendish stealing
And repaying those who resist you
With indiscriminate killing

When you can feel empathy
For those who little possess
And cease playing the victim
While of others goods you obsess

When you can recognize the right
Of all to basic things
Like food shelter and care
The resources their labor brings

When you can stop pretending
Your system benefits the world
While it impoverishes and starves
Nearly half its boys and girls

When you can contain your urge
To sit at every table and feed
Taking from every plate
Yet still not satisfying your greed

When you can stop proclaiming
Darker people a lesser folk
Displaying your arrogant ass to the world
While pretending to keep it cloaked

When you can dismantle your global police
Through which you rule by gun
Then your imperialist rein
Will finally see the setting sun

But of course you will never
Relent of your fee will
And any who dare to make you
You’ll mobilize arms to kill

So our task is to unify
And wage a peoples war
To seize the field and make you yield
So you will feast no more