i wrote this poem for an assignment but i liked it so im posting it
The Creature Named Greed
By xx_ninjalove_xx
Waiting in the darkness
For a selfish deed
Is a sneaky, deceiving
Creature named Greed
Patient and cunning
Greed may be
For he is an outlaw
Nobody can see
A victim stumbles
Into Greed’s invisible lap
Immediately immersed
By a deadly trap
The victim seems to suffer
No physical changes
Because it is the mind
That Greed rearranges
The brain is altered
To think that it’s right
To take more than offered
Though it is not polite
A need becomes an addiction
One becomes two
The amount of golden eggs in his pocket
Becomes more than a few
Massive amounts of
Objects are hoarded
From satisfaction to riches
(the list too long to be recorded)
But among the things
He hoards and collects
Greed cannot find happiness
In simple objects
He searches and searches
Though he cannot find
A certain fulfillment;
He’s left it behind
Greed withers away
He’s floated into the abyss
For he has died
Of emptiness
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