By Shahin Shabanian
Illustration: World Trade by Max Greis
Bankers of the world unite
And ruin the public with delight.
Your dictates coerce nations
Governments are cowed, causing devastations.
Capital moves around the globe without hindrance
Workers are arrested crossing borderline entrance
Capital moves around the globe like locusts
When leaving, lives are crumpled into dust.
Climate cries as we see
Brought the farmers to the knee
As our world is to lie in your abyss
Your actions show your malice.
Putting the noose of debt around our necks
While you cheat, making undue profits
Mourn, should we not
For losing the job and house to your lot.
Workers looking for jobs, noon and night
If they find one, the pay is not enough.
While they work to gain bread
Their safety at job is a dread.
Jobs, Housing, Education are the needs
Wars, Corruption and Theft become the deeds.
And on the altar of your Globalization shrine,
Blood of hungry children rolls down.
As the “money-changers” of the old,
Morphed into the vultures in the fold,
All must heed the History’s remark,
Trusting the profit system is a bunk.