11-25-2025, 05:32 AM
"Leviathan's Due"
They croak "Taxation’s theft" in practised spite,
hoard freedoms like a dragon guarding blight.
"Starvation's Nature's audit on the poor--
if they really wanted life, they'd buy some more."
The Public Good is none of their concern;
as widows weep, they clutch each coin they earn.
They dream themselves freed from the weight of law,
preferring the war of all against all:
Where each man defends what's his, righteously,
as wives and children suffer as they flee.
They’d free us all from safety’s common band,
and trust a contract to patrol the land.
I yield a portion of my rights today
to keep the would-be tyrants at bay.
The least of us, united, may yet still
bind Mammon's greed to serve Leviathan's will,
and arm the Giant built of every soul
to drive back Anarchy from Freedom's fold.
They croak "Taxation’s theft" in practised spite,
hoard freedoms like a dragon guarding blight.
"Starvation's Nature's audit on the poor--
if they really wanted life, they'd buy some more."
The Public Good is none of their concern;
as widows weep, they clutch each coin they earn.
They dream themselves freed from the weight of law,
preferring the war of all against all:
Where each man defends what's his, righteously,
as wives and children suffer as they flee.
They’d free us all from safety’s common band,
and trust a contract to patrol the land.
I yield a portion of my rights today
to keep the would-be tyrants at bay.
The least of us, united, may yet still
bind Mammon's greed to serve Leviathan's will,
and arm the Giant built of every soul
to drive back Anarchy from Freedom's fold.