relinquishing emotional fixation
toward material trappings:
gold and silver upholds true value
capitalist money tree
thrown down upon the gaunt lit alter
of caterwauling treasure seekers
within briny current sea circulating currency
countless denominations cashiered
their legal tender to grant
rich Midas, who straddles diamond
compound billed as sacred kant
tickles with dollar signs motley crue
scrambling towards drawbridge gate
pedestrians malingering hungry thirst
for wealth of nations to satiate
inexorable appetite for wanton money to amass
fuels reverence for all that glitters even brass
whence madding crowd behaviour cruel and crass
deplorable if perceived from one way looking glass
fool hardiness to revere what beast called cash,
lucre, green back
can buy - sweeping across world wide web
scarring globe on fast track
toward accumulating high excess lavish life style
and parade with pomp and circumstances while
ninety nine percent of less wealthy live hand to mouth
envying those billeted behind sealed mansions
east, west, north and south
except this dollar less chap, who could not give
a rat’s ****
for hearing ka-ching melodic sound twenty four seven
that does swoosh
in burlap sack clothes and bank accounts
preferring to slog and push
along the boulevard of broken dreams
that resembles nothing but mush
yet preference prevails to forego
attachment to government sanctioned loot
freeing mind and body trying to cherish
voluntary simplicity which does suit
this quest for knowledge seeking writer,
who disparages against his horn to toot
nor imposing personal philosophy gives reason
exuberantly to exhale
versus vacuity and purposelessness sans
blind faith soul asylum toward holy grail
goading most people to persevere millions
of bucks over hill and dale
despite owning next to nothing, yet detaching
psychological bond that doth choke
ability to experience unfettered psyche likened
to an oxen with iron bound yoke!