Money rips round me
by Chad Gurley

Slithering round
with effervescent apples
he coils my torso
rips my throat
stares in my eyeSlippery tongue enunciates"My apples are nourishing
knowledge bourn materials
materials bourn happiness
a small price to pay
when you pay nothing now"Sensibly reasonable
I think therefore am
more thinking
therefore
must lead
to an even Greater I am.My human grabs, "I'll take your fruit
and think of all there is to know."His fanged smile
widely inviting
sold me knowledge
scrumptious but foil
filling but empty
nauseating educationStudied how to repeat
hisstory
Learned me his realityMy spirit jolts in this horrorCredit he issued
for payment much later
no need to worry
right nowthen.
Constricting green
with dollared scales
the boa sucks my life of passion
knifes my wrists
deflates my spiritWhitely fanged smirk"Your time now to pay
worth more dead
than alive
a larger price to pay
when you have nothing now"Deathly original
hisstory's payment is due
with zeros
on every
single
individual, prices are spewedMy spirit prays, “Gracious Heavenly
Father, forgive me my debts.”World’s master of inequity
escalates his interest
raises my price-tag
tightens his grip
reduces my value
roots in his evil
drains oil from my lightEnlightened by God’s
Plan
Ignited by Christ’s Love.My spirit hallelujah’s in this FreedomRepentance Christ gave
for all human hisstory
It is what He
died for

now.