by Adwoa Badoe
Money is arbitrary systems of values
Time quantifier of service or merchandise
provided,
Is the money that I make,
The money I am worth
The house and neighborhood I live in
And the car I drive
Take a summation of years in school,
A computation of years of experience
Product of society, democracy and development
Squared and squared then cubed
Comes to fullness at sixty-five,
Then I retire
You retire but are we then equal at nought?
The equator separates north from south
Investments return, stocks decline
Closed systems of life and physics apply
Returns me to zero when I die
The power of Money is circulation
Buy and sell and sell again
Add or lose a few cents each round
Print more paper, mint more coins
Assign a value, any figure
Weight it by gold or copper or wood
Blood must circulate as much as money
Or else it stagnates and expires