3-1-26

Why I am a socialist.

As I sit beneath the sky at dawn, I find peace, even grace in the natural world.

Finding only turmoil, hardship and struggle in the world of man.

When did we get so lost, that self-destruction became our best solution.

I see now that it was when we raised capitalism above religion, that slow erosion

of our values for the sake of monetary gain.

Although I don’t hold to any religion, I learned my values and morality there, and

greed has never been a virtue until now.

Wall Street is the seat of wisdom, and billionaires are the new saints.

We might speak religious words, we might do religious things, but we live greedy

little lives.

Until we learn to share more than we keep, we will suffer through our time allowed.

As I sit, I just saw my first redwing blackbird of the season, another soon arrives,

they share a branch.