Modaru Madrigal 3

We have been big for far too long

Time to be small and mad and mean

The world found us way up the sky

We long for a place in a heartless hole

A heart too big

Becomes a fatal problem

A handshake too eager

Will sprain the elbow

 

We baked our bread

In our home-made oven

With our own sweet wheat

    And our generous sweat

 

Now besieged by a horde of spongers

From hungry regions and wretched realms

With long, long knives and devilish forks

Our bread in peril, our fate at stake

 

Yes, this bread we hoard

Its wheat was grown by slaves

The fortune we so loudly extol

Was extorted from weaker regions

 

But that is a tale for the doting pastor

And those bleeding hearts

Called the Conscience Gang

The era of Kindness has come and gone.

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