Poetry Nook: What Shall It Revenue?
What shall it revenue a person
To achieve entire bars of gold
Gathered and offered
And lose his crystal clear H2O
What shall it revenue the person?
What shall it revenue a era
To achieve a pocketful of dusty, soiled dough
Here and now
And lose hope in a pending future
And embrace a bleak future
Here and now
When a future hope is dashed
Here and now
What shall it revenue this era?
What shall it revenue a younger soul
To fail to coach a mind to realize
But to realize from a muddy, lethal pit
All the ore
And lose all the prospect there exist
To prepare to realize all of it
What shall it revenue the younger soul?
What shall it revenue a land
To lose entire plots of gold
And achieve scores of incurable sores
And achieve scores of widened holes
What shall it revenue the land?
What shall it revenue a farm
To lose its golden cocoa pods
To lose fertile acreages
And achieve a desolated, abandoned plantation
What shall it revenue the farm?
What shall it revenue a sacred grove
To lose all of the sacred timber
And achieve a desolated, depleted thicket
And achieve a muddy, marshy earth
What shall it revenue the sacred grove?
What shall it revenue a forest
To lose its uncommon species
To lose its dense envelopment
And achieve a desecrated thicket
And achieve a sparse atmosphere
What shall it revenue the forest?
What shall it revenue a nation
To lose dependable instances and seasons
To lose secure climate patterns
And achieve erratic seasonal patterns
What shall it revenue the nation?
What shall it revenue a folks
To lose nationwide, pure assets
To lose their pure supply of finance
And grope for the mercy of worldwide help
And achieve the pity of worldwide pittance
What shall it revenue the folks?
What shall it revenue a Chieftain
To achieve the least of the sum
And lose the most important of the sum
To revenue a Chinatown
What shall it revenue the Chieftain?
What shall it revenue a landlord
To lose management of his stronghold
To lose agency maintain on enforcement
To grant unfettered freedom
To lose the contemporary greenery
To achieve the browning lakes and rivers
And give a freehold to absolute wantoness
As they collect them and promote…in damaging brazen-ness
What shall it
…revenue?
