Corporate Wolves

Corporate Wolves.

There's no way

I was born

to pay bills,

survive and

just die.

The Wolves

of management

close in,

teeth baring,

needing to cull,

balancing books,

correcting mistakes.

Theirs!

Red eyes staring

shuffling looking,

unannounced,

Convictions served.

Who's next through the backdoor?

Who cut my family tree?

The one with all the riches

to be shared, cut.

An inheritance lost, wasted.

Mine!

The hounds so few,

the howling begins

closer, the kill.

Its started.

Reviews

[MySecretMuse]

Contradictory to your first stanza, unfortunately, that's what most of us end up doing (unless people are free-thinking writers like us!). Count yourself lucky that you were born with a creative mind and can see through the bullshit. This poem was great and I liked how you compared the rich corporate men and women to wolves.

[andrew mitchell]

I work in a medical business owned by the corporates and my time is coming I just have an inkling and they are cold hearted, soulless beings I tell you lol. Thank you dear poet. The first and fourth stanza was my feelings and situation to compare to the hunt by the wolves lol.

[alifeacoustic]

And the man on the street is left on the street as he wonders how his life fell apart around him when it was only last week they were thinking of vacations in the summer. The axe wielded, the innocent fall. Same old story, the rich get richer, the end.
Superb Andrew.

[andrew mitchell]

Yes it"s a sordid tale these days were loyalty to a company stands for nothing! Its all about numbers, and shareholder profits! thanks Lorry

[emmajoy]

What an acute poem, full of emotion, full of thoughts so many of us feel. You place words very succinctly, cleverly. Power is money, money is power.. the man on the street can only stand by and wonder 'where the hell have Ethics and a fair share gone?!

[Tomás Ó C..]

The Hounds of Mammon gnaw away at us all...

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you dear poet for dropping by!:)