POETRY - POLITICS


Socio Economic Slave:

Freedom to buy, able to consume, a surf to economics,
The total slave of yesteryear, had no incentive to work and meandered along.
The economic slave of today, has every incentive in the world,
To struggle to maintain, the standard of living that he has.
Toiling in three jobs for twenty hours a day, in frenetic competitive industriousness.
The lord of the manor in feudal England, owned all within his lands and vision,
The surf was obligated to work, an allotted time each week,
For the lord and then the church, before he could work to feed his family.
The neo economic surf has no land, only his labour as a commodity,
To acquire money, to be able to procure goods, necessary for survival.
But today the individual has the vote, as a check and balance on our peers,The option to choose, between strangers from other places,
Representing themselves and their parties, in a career orientated ‘Gentleman’s Club’.
Where despite the international dissolution, of anachronistic monarchies,
By people inspired revolutionaries, precipitating democratic constitutional documents,
Indelibly enshrining, by imprinting individual rights and freedoms,
On legally binding, nationally and internationally recognized agreements.
Thereby civilising the attitudes and behaviour, of our aspiring brothers and sisters.
A system where an honest perspective, puts one at the back of the queue.
To get ahead, is to advance at the expense of whoever,
In a moral vacuum of greed and individualism, at the expense of all.
Where individual will, can only be expressed in group action,
By the withdrawal of labour and collective consumer selectivity,
Affecting the God and shrine, of corporate economic performance.
Profit, the shareholders dividend, where if they can clearly ascertain the economic reality,
Through the veil of creative accounting, to exercise their democratic boardroom influence and control.
Perhaps the only real individual influence, able to check systematic corruption and abuse.