Shopping Kills

Shopping kills...
It tears you apart,
in greed, in want and in lust.
Ah! Why materialism?
Why not spartan and monk like ways?
Your eyes rove,
the exciting smells envelope your senses.
You succumb to want,
the lovely, luring labels catch your eye.
The lechering salesman blows open your mind-
and you with much useless pondering,
give in to his sweet, cunning beckoning.
The sense of control vanishes,
and yes!so does your money.
Consumerism just manhandles us,
it governs us and whats more,
we let it.
Escape is impossible-
it follows you where ever you go.
The sweetness of selecting a gift or,
giving with you heart, is long gone.
What remains is giving with restraint and hesitation.
Capitalism has done this to us,
so,a controlled market is utopian,
it sails in its own direction.
A melting cauldron-
of recession,pauperity and strife,
it continues to pound, to pound-
like a machine gun in Iraq,
pounding away to glory.