Wheel Of Progress Poem by Rob Knetsch

would you believe this?
in a place very well hidden
deep down in hard rock
like a cold and dark cave
that's where it is

it is round, it is huge and yes
it is still working, still going
and they call it for what it is
as it is the wheel of progress
and they truly believe

they keep it going non-stop
on any moment sixty men
in slavelike fashion, indeed
in the pace of that one man
the man with the whip

it is written that this is going on
since mankind knows time
and also that it will be going
for as long as mankind exists
can you afford not to believe this?

'Wheel of progress' © 2013 Rob Knetsch