Those of you who may regularly read what I
write will be aware of my love of poetry and of a few references to writers and
composers of verse.
In this instance I quote from the Lebanese
American poet and author, Kahlil Gibran – he who wrote the well-known book,
“The Prophet”.
This is a very short tale from another of
Gibran’s books, “The Forerunner”:-
The
Plutocrat
In my wanderings I once saw upon an island
a man-headed, iron-hoofed monster who ate the earth and drank the sea
incessantly. And for a long time I watched him. Then I approached him and said,
“Have you never enough; is your hunger never satisfied and your thirst never
quenched?”
And he answered saying, “Yes, I am
satisfied, nay, I am weary of eating and drinking; but I am afraid that
tomorrow there will be no more earth to eat and no more sea to drink.”
