RAW ORE AND SPICES: LIFE'S NECESSARIES

ANCIENT TRADE ROUTES

In a place where you learn by age three

to hit the floor and crawl to a corner

furthest from the window

at the first sound heard of gunfire,

it is hard to trust the fresh breeze

coming from an open window.

One never knows what, besides cooling air,

may come flying sonically fast inside

with the current winds of our times.

Since man began to explore.

Go beyond the edges of his own village

we have learned to make war

over trade goods of metals and spices.

We figured out that it was easier to steal them

than grub in the dirt, pick the leaves

 and dig in the mines to gather our own wealth.

It IS better to have an army than a workforce.

Spices once used to be worth more than gold

and once refined ores became the base metals

we used to shape of the weapons we easily used

to protect your honest effort traded for your food.

To protect our profit in spices found

turning the boring bland into the grand.

Now do you understand

why heroin, weed, cocaine, prescription pills

are worth traveling the ancient trade routes

over mountains deserts and hills is worth dying for?

and why you learn by age three

to hit the floor and crawl to a corner

furthest from the window

at the first sound heard of gunfire

following the ancient trade routes?

© M Durfee

10/29/13