I won’t pay their taxes
Or play by their rules
Won’t vote in elections
For mendacious fools
When I see tax collectors
I reach for my gun
Shooting the bastards
Would be so much fun
Don’t care for collectives
They’re social disease
Don’t like national objectives
They’re written in sleaze
I’d rather drink beer
Than vote at the booths
Rather hassle and jeer
Than encourage the fools
ALL polits are liars
Who steal when they can
Corrupted soul buyers
Who’s words we should can
We think that we live
So free and so proud
But they steal from our wages
And disburse to the crowd
Alone we are born
And alone we will die
So let’s live life as kings
And abandon the lie
Kill the lie of the nation
Kill the evil of race
Kill the dead hand of taxation
Let’s freedom embrace
So let’s vote with our feet
And abandon the trash
Let’s tear politicians
Away from our cash
As long as we pay
For their lies with our tax
Their wars will go on
And our freedoms they’ll trash
They read all our emails
And intercept our calls
They track us on cameras
They treat us like thralls
While children go hungry
They feed at the trough
Like pigs in a restaurant
They can't get enough
They slaughter our children
In battles for oil
But keep their own safe
Far, far from war's roil
Enslaved we all are
Though we think that we’re free
Democracy’s finished
There’s just you and me
Why have we become so frightened of criticism? Protest is probably the right word and in today's narcissistic society, we don't even need oppression anymore. Everyone's so obsessed with their image that nobody speaks up. Being indifferent and self-absorbed is not being moderate; it is a crime!
At first, I thought your poem was good and provocative, but then... there isn't a single line that isn't true! Therefore I think that this is simply great!
Axilea
This is a passionate piece! There are so many problems with the way things are set up currently. I can't help but wish that a real-life Robin Hood would breeze through the world, lightening cushioned pockets! Robin Hood is such an old tale, too - meaning this particular problem has been around for too long. It's the only system we have, though. I see no relief in sight, no active groups trying to abort these thieving laws. They are getting away with more and more as time passes, too. Great poem & a wonderful way to get these frustrated feelings out! Love the third to last verse especially!
Sheila
Freedom, basically, is a relative concept. For a guy held in a prison in the totalitarian country the freedom is being out of prison, for his 'free' compatriot it's living in democracy. For myself, I'm free whenever I feel I am. Since freedom is subjective it cannot be measured in an objective way.
Great poem.
Be safe,
Karen
While we are busy fighting the terrorists outside the country, we have plenty in town especially up on the hill. Much sunshine to you today! Jasmin Horst
And abandon the trash
Let’s tear politicians
Away from our cash
If only it could be, in this once home of the free.
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
Good poem.
I have to agree with your poem "Freedom" on many levels. However, I would rather have democracy than any other form of government. It is this democracy that allows you and me the freedom of speech. It is in democracy that you and I have the freedom to write what we think, when we think it, about any topic. Are there flaws, sure there are. Is there work to be done? Labor, hard labor and test of time in order to bring democracy on the original course set out forth by our forefathers. Certainly there is much work for us to do, as we haven’t gotten far of course. My question is where is the pre-established government is “For the People”, By the People”? Politicians use to serve for free….no wages for their term in office. Now, they work for vacations and pensions, lucky if they show up the floor to vote at all. We are broken, but lets not shoot them all yet. Lets re-group and find the strength to muster up the courage, to take a stand and being this great nation back into the “Promised Land”.
Theodocia