Was Man made for Money?
Was Money made for Man?
On which side lies the land
What is the truth?
Did Man for Money
walk straight —
From Ape to
Homo Habilis
2.8 million years ago?
Where was the Money, the Economy?
And then came Homo Sapiens —
smart, intellectual,
established Money,
Capitalism, Communism, Socialism,
all the isms that divide
across Borders,
Create Contempt
Exclusivity
Hate
Man made Money
Eventually Money started moulding Man
Crazed by opulence, by wealth,
Paeans were sung
to jubilate
Success
Wealth
Exclusivity
Till the Death Rim of the Sun expanded,
exploded
infecting the way of life
Exposing maladies
where the deprived cried, died
on railtracks ground to dust,
Dust unto Dust
hungry homebound mother and child
The Exclusive’s needs denied Inclusion
Is it time again,
Time again
For man to
Rise and
Sing
Of the old Economy?
Or,
A New Order?
A New Beginning?
Mitali Chakravarty is a writer and the founding editor of Borderless Journal.
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