Hunts men search this thing out
Looking for the pot of gold
We have been warned
From biblical times
This story is centuries old
Try as you may
To hunt this thing down
And watch evil events unfold
Don’t ignore
The evil this green can bring
It’s a trick that’s ancient and cold
It’s a spirit
You can’t see it or hear it
It wants you tapped into your greed
God said be anxious for nothing
He said he will provide all that we need
It will trap you
Before you trap it
So don’t be fooled by this scheme
It will keep you sick
Weary and tired
Chasing an American dream
If you look back on all who hunt it
You’ll see how lonely they sit
This thing can be deceptive and mean
Be careful when you focus on it
Beware of this thing
Warning signs are hard to be seen
But this thing is clever and keen
It will have you believe
You’re on top of the world
I call it the evil man’s green
mentalnotes1 
Evil mans green should be spread to the unfortunate. We need to help our people….our children….our women….
Healing struggles…easing struggles.
Such a crux….good vs evil, regarding monies.
WELL HELLO Shackled and Crowned (: Yes, it’s a trap I had to recently pull myself out of, thus came this poem Evil Green.
Glad you pulled yourself out of a negative situation. Always listen to your inner self, my sister.
Yes! Evil Green is compelling, yet an empty illusion. Brilliant poem on the subject 🙂
thank you, and yes, very empty,,,,
I have (although I am not one of them) met some extremely wealthy people as one often does in my line of work. I will say that, with only one exception thus far, they do not love money; they do, however love achievement and the act of making things happen. They may make a lot of it, but their love is the “stuff” they do or make. They see possibility where most people see limitation. It really is quite remarkable. Particularly so, when you do meet a number of them and can no longer thing of them as less than human. I realise this is an unpopular opinion these days, however it is the truth borne from my observation of such people actually engaging in the act of doing … whatever it is they do.
One is also quickly divested of the notion that what they do is simple or easy. To see, for example a huge pile of scrap metal and turn it into a fleet of farm machinery.–just the act of seeing it in this way is very difficult for most of us. I have tenuous gifts in that department, but i have seen it in action, to be sure. I am fortunate I have other skills. Although….
I will say, one such couple; for they were man a wife working together in a very interesting industry, felt certain that I could do as they have done. I would just need to put my whole effort into the task. But that task includes the much much more difficult task of seeing a pile of limitations and restrictions and roadblocks as a gleaming field of opportunity.
Now here, is where I ask all of you nice young people not to excoriate me for sharing my experience with you. I promise you this is what I have seen. And I am certainly no entrepreneur or business man. I work with abstract symbols that also take a long while to apprehend. But such things are, i think, better suited to my temperament. And… well… someone has to do it, do they not? : )
Now, if I am wrong about this next… please do not throw a brick at me. But it seems to me that, In your rather powerfully charged poem, Latoya, I see evidence that, at least on some level, you may instinctively understand all this already, even if you may not have framed the matter in such a way.
In this, I am quite impressed. It is much more difficult, and hence much more admirable that you can do so without having met people such as I describe, if indeed you have not. And, naturally, if you have met such people, you will have already seen them do as I describe above.
And… I probably should apologise for “going all ‘Napoleon’ Hill on you!!” as goes the saying.
YEA YOU WENT NAPOLEAN HILL ON ME,,,,LOL, BUT THATS OK I WELCOME ALL COMMENTS NO MATTER HOW LONG OR SHORT 😉
Thank you, and you are welcome! Quite.
I also thought it was very clever of you to include the original quote which speaks not of money being the root of all evil, as it is often misquoted, but of the LOVE of it. There is quite a distinction between the two! I was impressed that you knew also.
I spoke of you at length to a very brilliant friend of mine this evening at dinner. And showed him some of your writings. He had his tablet which made it easier. The restaurant had no WiFi, but we used my phone as a wireless tether. I do love the 21st century! : )