Was Ebenezer Scrooge
in Dickens'
Christmas Carol purely fictitious?
No, Scrooges live
today,
Equally greedy, cold
and ambitious.
They represent
Scrooge before
He earned our
admiration and saw
That human
compassion came only after
His ice-cold heart
had begun to thaw.
His transformation
showed him his former
Cruel disregard for
humanity
And let him see that
miserliness
Was nothing but a
heartless insanity.
Modern Scrooges fail
to see
The light of
compassion that brightly outshines them.
Their greed prevents
them from seeing the moral
Bankruptcy that
clearly defines them.
They couldn't care
less about
The hard-working and
struggling masses.
Their main concern
is that each law
That benefits the
wealthy passes.
Some of these
Scrooges you will find
Working in Congress,
eagerly serving
Wealthy donors who
give them money
And feel as though
they're more deserving.
Creating laws to
make their pockets
Overflow: that's
their aim.
To them the
parasitical poor
Deserve bitter
contempt and blame.
One wonders if these
greedy misers
Find it hard to
resist the temptation
Of saying,
"Then why not let them die
And decrease the
surplus population?"
“Aren't there
workhouses?” and “Aren't there prisons?”
Are what these
Scrooges appear to say.
“Concerns of the
poor are not our business;
Why can’t they just
go away?”
Ebenezer Scrooge was
lucky:
His transformation
showed him the light.
Will wealthy
Scrooges running this country
Discover compassion
and be less tight?
-by Bob B (12-28-17)
