"What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" Mark 8:36

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Elon Musk

Flying too close to the sun

Like Icarus, his day is done

A depraved billionaire, with a heart of stone

In his evil wake lie shattered lives, of decency robbed and stripped to the bone

Gleefully, wielding a bare, bloodletting, chainsaw to hopes and dreams

Feels, knows and hears nothing, of the average man's, travails and silent screams.

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Steeped in apartheid and a High Priest of white supremacy

His modern-day ethos, an integral part of white South Africa's abominable legacy

Of plundering, looting and straight-up rapacious theft

Their 24/7 oppression a cause-celebre; causing mankind to be of dignity and hope, bereft

Apartheid's sadistic punishment of innoents equalling crimes against humanity

Safe-harboured by America's body politic and elevated by the pompous, high on their supply of empty vanity.

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Yet aiming to fly close to the benevolent, life-giving golden orb

A force all-powerful, all-just and all-humble; earth's resplendent sun

Its glorious rays, shining on all freely, faithfully and with prejudice to none

The Musk-kite is ripped to shreds as with a sharp dagger and merciless jackknife

In a fool's errand to reach the source and giver of all planetary life

Lacking self-awareness of his direct opposition, as he unfolds untold ruinous, stress and strife.

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This Afrikaners' naked hubris and callous cruelty, too much for a kind, loving sun to bare

Aurora, issues a thundering, shattering 'thus far and no further' dare

To the richest man on earth, an icy put-down and belittling slap in the face

As SpaceX rocket ships blow up and turn to dust, yet another dose of apt disgrace

A stunning lack of charity and truth, on permanent full-display

Yet, his billionaire anti-human heart, shuts out the sun of righteousness and fails to see the light of day.

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The brotherhood of Narcissus; a select club of deadly and dubious distinction, evincing diseased minds

Devoid of any trace of human empathy and good will to mankind

Champions of chaos and slaves; shackled to run-amok cruelty and demented greed

They orchestrate ceaseless diabolical attacks on the powerless and the countless in need

Whilst vaunting their unhinged plans of space travel and immortality

All inanely despise the indelible words written on the pearly-gates to eternity

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

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Authors Bio:

Nigerian International lawyer (LL.M Harvard),based in Lagos, Nigeria. My career spans the United Nations Geneva, Switzerland (World Health Organization, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), Nigerian energy sector(Shell Petroleum, Conoco), Human/Women's Rights and Education (secondary/tertiary). I am an opinion writer for the Guardian Nigeria. My work has also appeared in The Hill, Washington DC, Kyiv Post, Ukraine, Women in leadership, London, UK and European Network against Racism, Brussels, Belgium.