WHO PLANTS THE SEED MUST NOT HOLD GREED

                                             

A seed was planted in the ground

Where all its nutrients were found,

It grew into a spreading tree,

So all around from it was free

To eat its fruit that satisfied,

None its fruit was ever denied.

But then one day up came a man,

Who had with him a different plan,

He made the tree his property,

No one then had the liberty,

To pick and eat the fruit it bore,

The freedom was for them, no more;

This made so many people sad,

For they missed all that they once had,

The freedom to go to the tree,

And not just all its bounty see,

But stop and from its fruit partake,

A sad difference this plan did make.    

But who exactly was this man?

And precisely what was his plan?

His name was Mr Selfish Greed,

Who claimed that he planted that seed;

Now that good fruit it was bearing,

All would not its fruit be sharing,

He put a fence around the tree,

No longer would its fruit be free.

But in baring the tree around,

This is what Mr Selfish found,

Birds of the air now had free reign,

Humans weren’t a bother and pain,

Shooing from each angle and side,

Birds from humans did have to hide,

But now that he the people barred,

Selfishness found it very hard

To keep those pesky birds at bay,

His good fruit at their mercy lay.

Each time its luscious fruit it bore,

Birds in their droves came more and more,

Till he got no fruit from his tree,

All  his lament was, “Woe is me.”

There is a moral to this tale,

Selfishness and greed won’t prevail.

Amen!

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