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