covet

COVET

Wanting

Reaching always - stretching my hands out farther

                Until the sinews bare thin under the pressure

Fingertips

Tips of bone - pushing hard against the skin

                Until the ends become white and bare

Goodness

Escaping me - slipping out from clefts of my heart

                While my soul follows suit and sneaks out through the hole

Coveting

Desire aching - in my loins, in my mind

                The thoughts of what I want but don’t have

Consuming

Never refreshed - never a fully belly

                Or a sigh of pleasant relief

Motivated

Driven by self - through spoken word and intended deed

                I act only to gain

Capitalist

So thankful - for only the opportunity

                To take more, to get more, to accumulate more

Hidden

Behind a smile - a smile that means nothing

                More than a means to an end

Revealing

The truth - about myself and what this world has done

                To me, what it has made me

Shatter

My paradigm - the world within a world

                That I built for myself

Stolen

A dirty gift - built for myself from the legs of your hard work

                And selfless toil

Tired

You should be - I spent all that you made me in just one day

                And then I spent all of what you made for yourself today, too.