Slowly, slowly

 Slowly, slowly then suddenly


Slowly, slowly then suddenly 

The dam of hurt and pain

Building over many years

Had burst upon a sleeping city. 


Angry workers with naught to lose

Burnt down the factories where they toiled

For long  hours over many years

Sensed elation at the conflagration. 


The bosses fled to guarded houses

Which had been abandoned

By the guards and servants

Now fending for themselves. 


The wealthy Tsars of Wall Street

Started reading up the Romanovs

To glean what history taught

When the poor had cried ‘enough’. 


Gravity can be defied at first

But ultimately it will conquer 

Money simply buys more time

Til time and wealth are spent. 


Money is the least of it

As people fight for bread

Snaking queues in Central Park

From morning until dark. 


Jesus said in measured tones

Two thousand years ago

Those with ears might listen up

And those with eyes might learn. 


Very slowly then so fast

Like a fissure in the ice

All the time we wasted once

Now gone and not returning. 

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