Human Life Or Diamonds

More prized then life or gold,
To fetch this gem everything is to be sold.
A child of poverty will give his family food to survive,
But only the strongest will come out of the darkness alive.
Overlords that whip the labor to go deeper into the Earth’s crust,
For a vision of clutter becomes their only lust.
Boys with no will but to dig another day,
Will be greed’s only prey.
They will work until they cannot move a pick or shovel rock,
All for the jewelers to have plenty of diamonds to stock..
So think about it the next time you give that woman the rock she craves,
What was the little boy or girls name you sent to their graves.
Do you really want to know or do you even really care,
Some how the cost of that rock is not too fair.
It was not your child that fell on the whip or died in the dark,
Because that all you care about is making your mate as happy as a lark.
Is it cold of me to tell you the truth at a 300 % mark up for them to get rich,
While children you don’t know miles away die in an unmarked ditch.!!!

Written By
Robert Lee Niswander
Copyright 2005