Desire,
the fire
that keeps everyone thirsting for more.
We buy
and pile
our stuff in ever greater hoards.
To spend
without end
seems rude in a world starving by inches.
Our lust
gets stuff
to pile so high, there is no end.
Some homes
so filled
with things no one will ever use.
Such waste
a stain
as the world looks on in tears.
Your heart
can sense
the needs of those around you.
Your eyes
see pain
our consumer society sows and reaps.
We can
become
the solution to economic woes.
Learn how
the less
you need, the more you get.
Our life
is not
about goods we have, but the good we do.
Copyright 2012, John Paul Mueller