Taxation is Theft
("World Turning", 2021, original encaustic)
Taxation is Theft
The world today’s divided
‘Tween those who give and take
One side doing all it can
To steal what others make.
It is a world of conflict
Along lines of hope and fear
Where each project what they reject
But cannot see what’s near.
We call it being civil
But that's not what we've shown
As brothers fight with brothers
And mothers eat their own.
We think we’re somehow different
Than all that’s come before
But birth and death continues
For us there’s nothing more.
Some want the world to be free
While others know the cost
The question is who will pay
When freedom has been lost.
(1/26/24)
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