Greed
When all else seems to fail
The light has gone away
Your strength will seem so frail
When darkness takes the day
As night consumes the worlds
And fire burns black as ash
No wind for flags unfurled
Nor breeze to test the mast
The sea itself runs clean
But man will never see
If the sun shone pristine
We still would gnash our teeth
Our greed is never sated
If the whole world be ours
For light and good we hated
But still we want the stars
Our lives are always empty
For nothing satisfies
Everything seems so tempting
But our eyes to us lie
Our stomaches never filling
Our throats are always dry
Though everything we're killing
Ready never to die
Our selfishness consumes us
And so blots out the sun
The darkness overrules us
Fulfillment never comes
Until we cease devouring
This world will drown in dark
Till virtue stops it's cowering
In man's most wretched heart
The world will never flourish
And man will always fall
Never will we be nourished
The darkest fate of all...
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