The wealthy who know only wealth
are the least sensitive about how others live.
Animals have more empathy for the human poor
than human beings have for themselves,
and then poor humans, reduced by circumstance
turn empathy into bitter sentimentality.
Nor do the rich have 'common sense',
because their money covers what they lack inside.
So they don't have to think at all beyond those like them.
But the human poor have to have more sense than money
-without sense they would end up with nothing
and still they spend more than enough of their lives
knocking all the sense out of each other.
When 'the last will be first and the first will last'*
we will be living in a truly different order.
*Mathew Chapter 20 Verse 16
are the least sensitive about how others live.
Animals have more empathy for the human poor
than human beings have for themselves,
and then poor humans, reduced by circumstance
turn empathy into bitter sentimentality.
Nor do the rich have 'common sense',
because their money covers what they lack inside.
So they don't have to think at all beyond those like them.
But the human poor have to have more sense than money
-without sense they would end up with nothing
and still they spend more than enough of their lives
knocking all the sense out of each other.
When 'the last will be first and the first will last'*
we will be living in a truly different order.
*Mathew Chapter 20 Verse 16
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