Wednesday, January 5, 2011

A Prose Poem; The Greed and Fear


The Greed and Fear


Greed and Fear were brothers whose parents were mankind. Mankind had raised them early on, only then to find that these two specters had in them greedy appetites for spreading lies and hurting family and giving them the frights. At first they did not run the world, as they do today for people were much simpler then and had more time for play. As time went by they got on well with priests and knights and kings but still to most of common folk they were but little things. Then came a time when man matured and put off simple ways he sailed away to foreign country with Greed and Fear. Into the ocean haze, they came to an unspoiled land with people brave and true. They killed them like animals and left them black and blue. Killing all in their path, Greed and Fear brought on a nation to be formed. A nation home of the free, a nation that lives in lies and secrecy. The brothers did great things for those who liked them, and those who did were treated with dignity. The followers of the brothers were told to kill all in their path and they would climb to the top and rule the world. They did as they were told and a new government was formed. A government where the finest of people were rich and dirtiest were poor. Where art and there language were the least important things and the children were force feed information and had to regurgitate it every day. This was what the brothers had always been looking for. Something they could control and anyone who opposed would never be found again. Greed and Fear had good intentions when they were first born, but their minds were slowly corrupted and did that same thing to anyone who disagreed.


-Lauryn Hartung


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