twisted metal coffin

there they were. Enjoying the ride. Trusting in God's grace and the driver. Juan lights a cigarette and puffs on it savoring. everyone on the vehicle was chatting. Juan's mind wanders. He likes the wind in his face and the fast lane. He thinks about what he would see in the place they were going. He thinks of all the fun he was going to have. Beaches, caves, reefs, amusement parks, towers and more.

Then everything goes blank. His sight frozen on the dashboard. He felt nothing. He no longer hear the other voices. All he could hear was the sound of metal crunching as it was twisted and bent. His instincts kicked in but he was frozen by the uncertainty of what just happened.

His hearing returns, but only hears sighs of pain and cries of disbelief.

The elegant bus they were on was called "Pinas" and the train that hit them was called "reality."
"Pinas" was now reduced to a chunk of twisted metal.

Juan regains his thoughts. Pinned down on his chair, he checks to see if everyone was alright. Every one was either dead or dying.

Juan checked the driver's seat but the driver was no longer there. All that Juan could see were a bag of 105,000 euros, empty bottles of liquid fertilizers priced P.728M, a few dead journalists and lefties and a CD with the writings "garci."

Juan stared at the twisted metal that imprisoned him. He thought if this were going to be his coffin. Juan started to talk out loud and asked himself, "Why did I let that four-foot monkey drive?"

greed

Greed. the leading cause of crime.
it is not poverty as most people perceive. if you look at it deeper, greed actually caused most of the criminal activities. Pure, raw human greed. the aspirations to be something more, to have more and control more.
greed has caused the rich to want more. after the rich have achieved the highest, they would not want to let it go. thus the rich will proudly step on each other so no one will be higher than them. and they will aspire more to be higher that nobody could reach them. and how else would they do that but by destroying all who are below them. take all the wealth of those too weak to oppose them. thus the rich gets richer and the poor are left hungry and dying.
now driven bu the will to survive, the poor finds a way to satisfy their hunger. they work, they strive and greed comes in. they want more. thus the poor finds more ways to live easier. they do everything humanly possible regardless of the law of man and God. and where else would they steal the wealth but from the people who trampled them.
the rich Stael through politics and loopholes within the law. the poor pillages with blades within the streets. but what chance does the poor have against the towering might of corruption, destructive corporations and influential power?

as Noli de Castro so well put it, "human greed... the race to go beyond previous in come records to the point of overextending capabilities of human institutions cased the near-meltdown of the major financial markets in the world."
but as I see it, it already collapsed the foundation of human living to the point that it is a necessity if one wishes to survive.