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The Good Citizen's Creed

Weeks slip
Dreams flip
Again & again
It'll happen in ten
nine eight seven six
Good little workers pick up sticks
five four three two
Dear little baby, the next one is you

Eat your bread
Go to bed
The clock strikes ten
Again & again
We are free men
Just a' waitin' for when
that whistle gets blown
lettin' us go on home
Where we bow down our faces and give thanks at last
to our Savior, our Comrade, bless'd Iconoclast

Red little hen
You remember when
you told us we should know
that you reap what you sow
"We should have that bread too!"
We demanded of you
Yet you selfishly stood & reminded us that
Idle souls crave, while the earnest get fat

Old ways
By-gone days
We were bound by The Ten
Again & again
We are surely free now
Hen was old anyhow
Now we toil at will
In the field, in the mill
Done away with that moral delusion of old
We've evolved, we are free, we will not be controlled
Now rid from the rule of that fairy Godhead
Our new leader has graced us with Circus & Bread
Gladly we serve that new champion of ours
Who has sworn to deliver us straight to the stars

"1. Simply do as I say
2. And you mustn't to pray
3. And lay down your arms, you're now free from all harms
4. And pay me your dues
5. And allow me to choose, what's best from your head right down to your shoes
6. Give me your blood
7. And your sweat
8. And your tears, For only through I can you live out your years, hand in hand with your brother, your sister, your friend, In prosperity, lightness, and peace till the end
9. And promise to love me with all of your heart
10. Swear that, even in famine, we never shall part"

So we strap on our boots, march in line nice & straight
For our liberator, our darling, The State.

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Adam Kinsley

Date: 5/23/2017 6:08:00 PM

This is what happens to every society. Not matter how it begins, corruption and demoralization take place, until one group or the other cannot take it anymore. To me, you may not believe in God, but it's clear that there's good and evil. We wouldn't be in a world with billionaires and those who have nothing; and we wouldn't be in a world where people kill for power, or simply greed, lust, or desire. We all have the capacity to be autonomous beings, but this requires sacrifice, and desire.

Carolyn Fish
Date: 6/2/2017 1:30:00 PM

Agreed. It is dark satire, about those who replace God/religion with secularism, and end up treating it as a religion and committing the same acts of blind worship that are looked down upon in religion.