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The Sunday Whirl presents twelve words for us to use in a creative writing piece.
This weeks words are:
favour, kind, jinx, spell, sorcery, gift, denial, child, style, rapture, truce, way
The Boy Who Had Everything.
Born into extreme privilege,
Wanting for nothing.
No favours were refused,
All gifts given, were expected.
Denial of wants unheard of.
But is this where happiness lies?
The way to satisfaction?
Or is it a kind of treadmill,
A hedonic carrot and stick?
Can happiness lie in "more"?
Is money the source of joy?
The beguiling rapture of the ledger?
But...money begets power
And power absolutely begets money.
The sorcery of the image.
A "win at all costs" mentality,
A style of social warfare.
No spell or truce conceded,
Nor any prisoners taken—
Weaknesses that may jinx.
So, like a drain-hole on life,
Community wealth steadily moves
Away from those who need it
Towards those who only want it.
The French had a solution.
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