The Architects and the Morrow Days
4. Grim Tuesday
He is greed. He wants more than he can have
and in doing so, he takes too much
and a flood comes and snatches all he has
and it's all nothing before one last touch.
He sees beauty as too shallow a thing.
He collects the riches and drops the rags.
He sees anything pretty and will bring
to his treasures, even if he drags
them and chains them up, so they can't escape
from him. But his greed has left him blinded
to the fact that he can only change shape,
not create from scratch like the high-minded.
And so, for his greed, he lost his gamble
after an almost too long preamble.
