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Globalization

Born into poverty, despair, and disease, instead of a life of luxury and ease.  People are dying from lack of hope, fate strikes from the shadows. People living in such extreme poverty, conditions I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. It's a hard-scrabble existence, you pay with your life for the sins of humanity. War rips through a country filled with hate,  while around the world our heads of state,  watch each other's backs and rape the land, divided we conquer, divided we stand. Corruption and murder their fait accompli, execution and genocide a sovereign right. Atrocities ordered by power-mad men against families; their women and children. Religious fanatics and angry zealots oppugn one another and precipitate their doom. How can they believe their logic is sound? Redemption can't be found on a battleground. Here in America, we suffer from excess. The war on drugs is far from a success. Too much of a good thing is our malady. A condition for which there is no clear remedy. The seven deadly sins flourish independently, particularly greed, sloth, and gluttony. What are we teaching our children today? What price will future generations pay?

Copyright © October 2000 Meg Green


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