For Sale
To the latest trend, to the highest payer, to the most popular
 
We used to stand for the weak. We used to fight for justice. We used to protect the defenceless and we used to seek out the disadvantaged. We were a home for the homeless and a comfort to the poor. We were teachers, leaders, guides. We were allies with the sick and ministers to the distressed. We protected, we fed, we clothed, and we embraced the rejected … but we have discovered the wonder of wealth, the glory of status, the beauty of position and the great taste of power and have changed our thinking.
 
We can have both … we can have all … all we have to do is learn to justify, learn to compromise, learn our politics and bow and scrape without looking like we are bowing and scraping.
 
We will be with leaders who make decisions and though we have no say, we will agree, and we will accept the façade at the cost of integrity.
 
We will hold on to our names, our titles and our establishments but we will empty them of true purpose, true insight and truth itself so that we can flow easily within the stream of complacency … not upsetting the cart of the holder of gold and silver. White anted structures of superficial spirituality and pretended wisdom.
 
We will maintain tradition over right … till told otherwise.
We will care from a distance, so we do not become involved.
We will comply with the desires of the popular movement.
And we will manipulate toward and uphold the values you demand.
 
We are for sale … and we are easily sold …
Because we are best at deceiving ourselves as we have been from old …
 
Everything for a higher purpose
While I get fatter, blinder, deafer and more comfortable.