A BILLION OBESE PEOPLE WALK THE EARTH A billion obese people walk the earth Eating more than their health can sustain Eating more than the world can sustain Feeding on the blood of the world. Meanwhile, stones fly in the shadow Of the Pyramids. Ancient, and built of Ancient stones Hauled up by scrawny slaves From the great Mother Nile. What would they say today These nameless faceless unknown slaves Who being nameless and faceless yet Built monuments for the ages? What would freedom mean to them? Is freedom but a word? Would the food the billion obese consume Mean more to those slaves Than the blood and courage Of the men and women standing up to guns and tanks? Empires rose and fell in the shadow of the Pyramids Empires meant to last till the end of Time. Ozymandias, Rameses, Caesar, Napoleon Have come and gone. But the Pyramids, built by slaves, Endure. Today’s Empire, halfway round the world Will fall, and the blood and courage Of the people of Egypt shows the way. But if you could turn time back Back to beginnings, and ask one of those naked slaves What he’d rather have, Freedom or food to fill his stomach What would he have chosen? To a slave, what is freedom? Is it just a word? The billion obese weigh down the earth with their Obscene weight.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 04:49:16 +0000
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