Aid will never save the world

Without changes in our lives.

Systems which embrace us all

Foster wealth’s destructive drives.

Smiles that light the rich can hide

What destroys the marginal.

We are called to choose today

All that love finds seminal.

Let us name the ills that cause

Poverty and wretchedness;

Own how market freedom breeds

Many forms of wickedness.

Nature’s competition dwells

In a shared community.

Ecosystems limit growth

To preserve diversity.

God of balance and shared rights

May Earth’s wisdom teach us now

How reversing growth can save

People who to nature bow.

Living on a smaller scale,

Raising taxes on the rich,

Sharing all we have or own,

Saves us from consuming’s itch.

When we learn to share our wealth,

Learn to share life as a gift,

All the poor will have fair shares,

None will have to feel adrift.

Money lending will be shared

By the whole community.

We will celebrate as one

All life’s vast complexity.

Text © William Livingstone Wallace.

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