The morality of money

Let us clarify our moral position towards money.

• It is unfair to blame the egoism of an egotist on the money he or she possesses.


• It is unfair to blame any evil inflicted upon the undeserving on the money that enables it.


• It is unfair to blame the failure of the working on the profits he or she may have first aspired for.


• It is unfair to assume that money may not purchase happiness or love without knowledge of all of one's recourses.


• It is unfair to conclude that money does not make the world go around irrespective of whether it may or may not.


• It is unfair to foist the status quo of the human condition upon the desire for money.


• It is unfair to include money into theocratic disciplines so as to justify its purpose in the hands of man, woman and/or child.


• It is unfair to exclude the institution of money from the successes of mankind.


• It is unfair to blame money whilst grieving the loss of money.


• It is unfair for any one man, woman and/or child to claim money is ephemeral.


• It is not wholly fair for all men, women and/or children to claim money is ephemeral.


• It is unfair to renounce money and, therefore, claim to have renounced materialism.


• It is unfair to hoist solely the blame of violating law upon money when it also facilitates the creation of law.

Wherefore the hungry hand recedes from the market upon the doorstep of which it has laid down a product of its skill, thereunto extends the healthy hand the money that stamps the seal of fair exchange.

The morality of money

Let us clarify our moral position towards money.

• It is unfair to blame the egoism of an egotist on the money he or she possesses.


• It is unfair to blame any evil inflicted upon the undeserving on the money that enables it.


• It is unfair to blame the failure of the working on the profits he or she may have first aspired for.


• It is unfair to assume that money may not purchase happiness or love without knowledge of all of one's recourses.


• It is unfair to conclude that money does not make the world go around irrespective of whether it may or may not.


• It is unfair to foist the status quo of the human condition upon the desire for money.


• It is unfair to include money into theocratic disciplines so as to justify its purpose in the hands of man, woman and/or child.


• It is unfair to exclude the institution of money from the successes of mankind.


• It is unfair to blame money whilst grieving the loss of money.


• It is unfair for any one man, woman and/or child to claim money is ephemeral.


• It is not wholly fair for all men, women and/or children to claim money is ephemeral.


• It is unfair to renounce money and, therefore, claim to have renounced materialism.


• It is unfair to hoist solely the blame of violating law upon money when it also facilitates the creation of law.

Wherefore the hungry hand recedes from the market upon the doorstep of which it has laid down a product of its skill, thereunto extends the healthy hand the money that stamps the seal of fair exchange.

Water, Sacrosanct

Deep down in the understanding
of the instance of resistance
there is a sleeping fire not waiting
to be awakened but eager to consume
in the process marking a fine line
between the wise and the knowing

Cautious would be those waiting
to throw a stick into it
to empty an ampoule of ghee into it
for its tongues of heat are infinite and eternal
never having once known the fatigue of toil
or distance, and in that truth, it became a power

Of the labouring masses because of its strangeness

Between each of the self-indulgent embers
and the next is an acute space of demand
and vice that act together like willing prostitutes
but never compliant to achieve a common goal
individually, and through pores that open and close here
is an osmotic pump that mobilizes the arrogance

Of those doused in blood into a different hell
that is only silenced by humiliation
Their every breath rises and falls with some terrible purpose
that they blanket themselves with in order
to seek comfort because freedom is a strange thing to them
In fact, it is the eyelessness of their masters

It is the very thing they have chosen to destroy

For the sake of their children not because
it causes physical harm – even though it does
for in knowing that blood is thicker than water
they know what causes pride and what kills it
dissolves it into an ocean of wisdom that is never
never permitted to come together in a war for food

If time healed all, then revolutions would become moot
and the Fire could be ignored till the day it went out
with an ostentatious “pop” only to remind its wardens of
the opalescence clouding their judgment, only to remind
its keepers that the time has also come for the shells to crumble to dust
money cannot ever buy happiness nor can be it traded

For another life, but in the absence of marked and ratified paper

What buys bread and what buries the dead
what is the memory of effort and what was left unsaid
It's important to feel the pain brought on
by one’s wounds not because it's a mistake to learn from
but because it's a reminder of the lessons still remaining
to be taught only because there are mouths still waiting to be fed

Desires must be procured, wants must be attained
but the needs must always be earned, and that's where
we all begin before an inner corruption seeps through
the oil that feeds the Fire only to leave us lashing out
against the Universe of humanity that's agreed to be our refuge

History's taught us less than what it could've by not teaching us anything at all