Silver oh silver
Where did
you get your name?
Where did
you come from?
Where can
you be found?
Why do you
torment us?
When are you
responding to my questions?
You were
made by man
Yet you make
man run mad
Don’t you
have human nature?
Oh! You aren’t
human
So what are
you?
Nothing compares
to wisdom
Yet you
wisely take it away from man
Your sight
so captivating
Your name so
alluring
What are you
made of?
You darken
the paths of kings
Writhing their
hearts out of their chest
Squeezing humanity
out of them
Leaving them
void and empty headed
Why are you
so inhuman?
You set
brothers against each other
Breeding hatred
in hearts of families
Cousins sitting
on each other’s head
Sons not
caring for their oldies
Are you
really worth it?
Because of you,
young flowers rid themselves of their beauty
Briefly garmented
each day
Miserably posting
themselves at street corners
Shamelessly hawking
themselves at a pauper’s price
Seriously!
Don’t you think you are denying them their innocence?
Because of
you the pillars of homes are fallen
Strong gigantic
men are beheaded
No more
strong shoulders to lean on
No more role
models for the baby generation
Can’t you
just be fair for once?
Now this is
my intuition
It’s you who’ve
brought it back
Revived Sodom
and Gomorrah ,the fallen cities
Pairing men
with men, women with women
Defying
nature. So what’s your promise to them?
You create greed,
they call you corruption
You snatch
us food, they call you hunger
Kings make
you their bed, they say it’s inflation
You cause jealousy,
they say it’s competition
Why are you
so cunning?
I don’t say you
are bad
But can you
stop all these confusion
You make
life easy, you keep us busy
Because of
you we aren’t lazy
In wisdom
you make kings rise
In foolishness
you make them crumble
In wisdom
you stir knowledge and insight
In foolishness
people walk in darkness
You can
create honor yet you can also cause misery
Those who
seek wisdom find you
Those who
seek you are hurt
Those who
find wisdom lack you not
Those who
find you lose wisdom
Yet you belong
to wisdom
