Give and Take
TO A CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST
When Jesus urged us to donate
To poor strangers or brothers
Did he endorse and give mandate
To proxies in abyssal State *
To signal virtue on a plate
But take it first from others?
If you with heart that bleeds desire
To heal and succour those in pain
Will God not give your spirit fire
Enable you with strength and main
To help in their enhancement
Yet not break the eighth commandment
Why do you choose to denigrate
Yourself, your sister, brother
Deny as cause, and delegate
To those with power to smother
Your self determined strength to be
True source of welfare given free
* ‘abyssal’ - deep as in an abyss
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