When money dictates what can’t be done, versus what can,
should it then by rule, be the guide of the conscience of man?
When nations protect themselves, with death dealing weapons of such lofty stealth,
why can not the will be found, to ensure their own citizens health?
Or, when the life inside an eagle's egg, can be protected by law,
why does a human embryo, the lesser compassion or protection draw?
The answers are much more simple, than you or others might think,
for it all boils down to the value of special paper, and some pretty ink.
For when such becomes 'money', it then represents individual and collective will,
so miserly rationed out for what’s good, while so easily spent in ways that kill.
So too, this money can soothe and excuse a stricken conscience, beyond all guess,
for then one's decisions, really aren’t personal, ‘it’s just business’.
But, I for one, do refuse to be dominated or guided, by mere paper and ink,
for I know money is not the problem; or is it, what do you now think?
C. J. Marshowler
