All freedoms divided by a high population yields only a very small slice for each citizen.

Liberty’s lady, these United States,
Where founders collectively pledged fates
To wondrous land on planet Earth,
Where each citizen pursued true worth.

And worth was outdoorsy big in size,
For freedom was divided by numbers wise,
So ample room there was to grow,
With virtually nowhere you couldn’t go.

Worth was bound by word and song,
Dreamed into birth and nursed along,
Through hard work, smartly planned,
In pursuit of happiness, lives spanned.

This, the first time in history, ever,
A state was limited in its endeavor.
Power with the people was vested,
And all state actions debated ‘n’ tested.

So what to Liberty’s lady did history do?
Was her government replaced by coup?
Was she voted out at a great foe’s urging?
Or overthrown by a wild mob surging?

No, but Liberty’s beauty’s a fleeting thing,
So very fragile, so apt to take wing.
Just as a freedom gave us latitude,
Overcrowding spawned a greedy attitude,

Then bureaucracy its ugly forms demand,
To render a cherished freedom utterly bland,
And make it seem not worth our while,
For too many papers we’ll have to file.

And this is the way we lost them all,
One by one, fragile freedoms did fall,
And soon enough, we, like older lands,
Were securely held in Socialist hands.

Dreams now stillborn in depths of state,
The only nursing is bureacracy’s weight:
If something in life you wish to do,
Fill out the forms, wait a year or two.

They’ll let you know if it’ll be all right,
When you can do it, where’s the site,
How many forms required each day,
And how much profit to keep and pay.

Of liberties lost, or retained just barely,
Let’s be objective and analyze fairly:
Aliens flooding in we didn’t heed —
That or our careless urges to breed —

Crowded our space more and more,
So problems grew and brought to fore
Regulations that plied us with force,
Adding even more restrictions, of course.

Freedom divided by high population number —
Yields too small the slice we encumber,
And it wasn’t conspiratorial or even shady —
Hard math’s what happened to Liberty’s lady!