Decadence

Is there a culture that can survive,
To have its citizens accept and believe...
Thriving on greed.
With an increasing supporting,
Of decadence.
Endorsed to ignore,
The overwhelming effects...
This has on the rising cost,
It pays to continue denying...
Stability of mentalities,
Depending upon fiction to depict reality.
Is a disease.
And not a good dividend,
To expect a return that benefits longevity.

Pretensions kept to parade,
A charading of a greatness,
Ultimately has this growing episode...
Close to see by those most aware,
And conscious enough...
To know an ending results.
When the feeding to rely,
On decadence and greed.
Is not a permanent position to brag about.
If the people are left to suffer and grieve.
Unable to afford experimental cures.
Hoping to identify reality.
For what it was to be to recognize it.
Yet gone.
But wishing it to want back again.
Even if the normality of it is questioned!