The Price of Everything
Everything has a price –
From a pen to a kidney;
From a baby to a new knee.
If you have the money
You can buy anything –
From a woman to a gold ring;
From a tree to a bird’s wing.
You can buy the land,
The water – even blood.
From a book to a life;
A trinket to a wife.
You can purchase an elephant
Or an elegant diamond stud.
Everything has a price –
From a new heart to a glove;
From a pin to simulation of love.
With enough cash
You can buy everything.
You can set out a new city
Lay it out and plane it.
The one thing you can’t afford
Is a new planet.
Opher – 23.1.2021
We are bought and sold.
Nothing is sacred.
There is nothing that cannot be bought.
The rarer something is the greater its price.
The last elephant tusk will be bought and sold.
Your daughters have a price.
Your life is cheap.
We consume and consume. There is no limit, no rationale, no control.
We consume our souls, our world and every creature and living organism around us.
We are on a sealed unit hurtling through space.
There is no life-raft.
We are buying and selling the very thing we depend on to stay afloat.
We cannot buy another.
Once it’s gone it’s gone.