SILVER

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