Devastating Power

I happen to be terrified By cut-throat competition And sinister backroom deals Rendering all treasures and rewards To the obscenely decadent and rich While the land I love Descends into a trash heap Where the poor and dispossessed must weep. . There has to be revolution And the turning of everything Upside down! The politics of cruelty Must be supplanted by compassion, There must be an underground reaction To the overt violence and greed Of those in devastating power Who currently hold the keys in this dark hour To the prison cell of this existence.