For The Love of $$$$$

What disgust me

Is what lust thee

The color green

What one does to get it

Through any obstacle

By all means

Is the seed

That is implanted

By self, in the mind

There’s no need

For a struggle

Yet they commit that crime

So they can

Fulfill

In them what is missing

So to others they deal

Low enough to steal

Not knowing

It is their self that they rob

No concept of life

Nor intentions of getting a job

In their materialistic world

Polo, Guess, Girbaud, or Iceberg

Don’t care if you go to jail

Nor will

Jordan’s, Tims, Nikes, or Airmax

Put up your bail

Yet they have you blinded

Only their logo do you see

A walking billboard

Is what your life

Amounted up to be

Posted on the block

Selling crack, Selling weed

Not knowing they are no different

From that buyer and the product

From you they receive

High off greed

With no family to support

Or mouths to feed

Only the need to be fashionable

The need to be seen

The need to be known

Is the need that will lead

To self destruction

Incarceration or death

Because the lust of money

Means more then their breath

Already deceased

Giving up their life

For their wants

Not their needs

Another statistic of society’s

Number one killer



Green

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I wrote this poem when I was 19 or 20 after having a heated discussion with Terrence about drug dealers and their lust for money which would eventually lead to their demise

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