The Trader and The Traitor

• Posted by ProbsCoolerThanYou March 5, 2016 - 1,124 views

  The Trader and the Traitor
  

  The trader and the traitor

  walked down the road that day,

  said the trader to the traitor,

  “What have you to say

  of this war, that ravage our land,

  and kill our youth quicker than any god can?”

   

  Said traitor to trader,

  “Here’s what I say:

  Damned be the war,

  and all those who may

  partake in its unholy task

  the killing of men and boy so fast

  that all of the womenfolk wail,

  and cry for their sons,

  who to next-life will sail.”

   

  Said trader to traitor,

  “Now here’s what I say,

  nothing better for business than

  death every day.

  I used to sell candles,

  now I sell swords,

  and every day they all ask for more.

  I buy all the weak ones, the ones

  that may break,

  so I sell twice the swords

  in half of the days.”

   

  Said traitor to trader,

  “You devil, you ask

  what I think of your

  selfish and disast-

  rous plan, your great ruse,

  you’ve killed more men

  than a red-clad hanger of noose--

  and I cannot believe,

  that you do not over any man grieve,

  because truly,

  when I say you do kill,

  you kill more than I run,

  and I was a runner,

  but still,

  there is something,

  to say for your plan,

  perhaps if I take some

  of those swords from your hand

  and sell them to the men I pass

  by,

  You’ll forgive my rude words,

  and you’ll pay me sometimes?”