Count to ten on your fingers, air bubbles
And each time you count
A finger goes missing
Like the count down of time
What do you value more, breaths?
A finger? a finger? just a finger?
I know a girl that works
In the money factory, if you do want links
She is quite good you know
A magician with funds, abracadabra
Changing dollars into pounds
And all the others comes easy
I call her the key holder
As many that are secretly spread around town
In unassuming shops, the key holders
Washing currency into different forms
If all we chase is a piece of paper
As it is, don't argue with me boi
To kill for, to love for, drowned, submerged
To hate for and to save, "just on occasion"
Did we move forward or backwards
In our essence to cheap-in our lives
Bought with a piece of paper
Thin on value, burns as easy, float as dead
To kill for, kill kill kill
Kill with greed, kill kill kill, murder
Count to ten on your fingers, hold your breath
And each time you count
A finger goes missing
Like the count down of time
What do you value more in life
A finger? a finger? really just a finger?
I know a girl who works in the money factory
Did someone just drown here
Floating on water with empty worth
I see a bag of paper, sat as money
Unattended looking for the next victim
The money factory, the money factory
Life in the money factory
I really like "each time you count a finger goes missing"...profound!
ReplyDeletethought provoking, what do we value most?
ReplyDeletewow- powerfully written
ReplyDeletesad...but very passionate powerful poem...
ReplyDeletenicely done and thanks for sharing this
ReplyDeleteI love the repetition in this it is very effective, powerful poem
ReplyDeleteThis effort suggests your theory (see your bloc header) is sound.
ReplyDeleteI love the countdown of time and a magician with funds abracadabra. For me this was an unexpected interpretation of the photo but I enjoyed reading it, thank you. It's a powerful, nice poem!
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