Inspiring Financials

 * inspiring financials *
Arriving for another day
Yesterday was the same
Sit and begin your chores
I ask you at jounals and tables
Set aside your algorhythms
Turn off the vast calculating machines
Do not square off each percentage
Complete deviations to fractions of a millionth
Instead listen to the voices
Of hope and inspiration
Find a meaning beyond the chores
Escape the paradigm of laboratory
Hear the words delivered which
Can lift and inspire
Give fire to your calculations
Meaning to the tasks performed
These things you do are not
Set to merely be completed
Instead part of a greater whole
An endeavour honourable and meaningful
From which you can garner respect
Be an example to your children
An upright citizen in the community
The work we do in finance is not
Merely the adding and accumulating
Of greater profits for shareholders
All society can gain profit
Greater even than our plain endeavours
By constructing a robust company
Able to survive fiscal crisis
Downturns in market and conditions
We set a platform in our country
Provide jobs which provide income
Income which courses through the economy
Creating jobs and income
Rather than a mere counting house
An Australian engine of wealth
In monetary terms for some
As an example of our ability
To meet the world's markets on equal terms
Create solutions for our problems
Supply capital to support other meaningful endeavours
This is what we do
This is what we risk by not doing our roles well
Not doing what we can do
To be our very best
To create the very best
Under whatever conditions we encounter
In face of all obstacles
And those who might wish us ill
The parts of many make the whole
And the part of each must be respected
In financial oddssey
Not to the stars we turn in hope
To the people and our country
These we uphold with pride
And so with affirmation of why you do
Seek better now to do what you do..