<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567597" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Origins of the Money, the Market and Slaves</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Four boarders, languages, clans of colour and an old age of metals<br>Bare landscapes, rare travels, ancestry, raw sleeves and petals<br>The natives: The slaves, then the market and the money<br>The inventions, alchemy, the art a sweet harmony! <br>The first laws of exchange, ideas of tax and early ideas of wealth<br>Ideas of centralism, greed and making more money out of death<br>The role of the slaves, to plough the yards and farms and make more cents<br>To build the market, to build the market until it made more sense! <br>To let the whole world know, that for thousands of years evil shall reign<br>The origins of the market and money, the pure effort of slaves without any gain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The slaves were brought from slavery by blood, sweat and tears<br>Was that not in vain if slavery now has changed form<br>From working muscles for a thousand years<br>To brains not working but greed fills the hearts of the wounded<br>Will more greed heal the wounds of evil irreversible? <br>The laws of exchange revisited<br>Wealth not in monetary terms<br> Wonder if by loosing we did not gain<br> Lessons learnt from bloodshed<br>Should gain us bare landscapes, rare travels, ancestry, raw sleeves and petals</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Written In Collaboration with Xolelwa Zulu (verse 11-20: 01 February 2010)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sicelo+Sithole">Sicelo Sithole</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567597" data-title="On The Origins of the Money, the Market and Slaves de Sicelo Sithole" data-description="Four boarders, languages, clans of colour and an old age of metals Bare landscapes, rare travels, ancestry, raw sleeves and petals The natives: The slaves, then the market and the money The inventions, alchemy, the art a sweet harmony! The first ..."></div> </div> </div>

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