Our Home Of Liberty
© Surazeus
2018 06 30
The facile lies of fascist tyranny
demand way too much mental energy
for angry perpetrators to maintain
in their vain desperate effort to control
the minds of hungry people seeking pleasure,
so their ploys always collapse on themselves
into plain truth of free democracy
where liberty of every individual
urges us all to cooperate with love
together building our community.
The tyrant who builds his tower on lies
and props it up with aggressive attacks
on our strong institutions of free choice,
free assembly, and free expression of truth,
must always stay alert to maintain power
because the people form alliances
to challenge his feeble authority
and soon will strike his fragile tower to shards
so haughty fool will fall from heights of pride.
Over twenty-five hundred years ago
Lao-Tzu, wise philosopher of Henan,
wrote little book of poems called Way of Power
in which he talked about the natural Way
and how we can gain calm power over death
by flowing with natural process of life
when moving in harmony with the way
our actions cause construction or destruction.
"If you want to lead your people," Lao wrote
in the fifty-seventh poem of his book,
"with good success to help them grow and thrive,
you must learn to follow the natural way,
and not attempt to control their life process
by letting go the concepts of fixed plans
because the world will govern itself well."
"The more laws prohibiting things you pass
the less people will behave with honest virtue,
the more weapons of death your soldiers wield
the less secure everybody will feel,
and the more you subsidize lazy people
the less they will rely on their own wits."
"Therefore the Master of the Natural Way
declares to every ruler in strong tower,
I stop passing laws that command behavior
and people treat each other with respect,
I stop funding people who will not work
and people work to generate earned wealth,
and I leave people to follow their hearts
and they become serene from active faith,
so I drop desire for the common good
and the good flourishes common as grass."
Though our nation is controlled by the tyrant
who pushes his agenda against nature
in vain attempts to control minds of people,
the people challenge his authority,
asserting process of democracy
to ensure equal justice for all people
which maintains our strong state of liberty.
Though our flexible institutions quail
from vicious assault of his arrogance
to crown himself emperor of our lives
we will unite against his tyranny
and throw him from his haughty tower of pride
for we accept no mortal men of flesh
who dare assert themselves as royal king,
and thus sustain vibrant democracy
where we confirm our souls in self-control.
Never more will kings rule over our land
for every person rules their own free heart
together in our home of liberty.
© Surazeus
2018 06 30
The facile lies of fascist tyranny
demand way too much mental energy
for angry perpetrators to maintain
in their vain desperate effort to control
the minds of hungry people seeking pleasure,
so their ploys always collapse on themselves
into plain truth of free democracy
where liberty of every individual
urges us all to cooperate with love
together building our community.
The tyrant who builds his tower on lies
and props it up with aggressive attacks
on our strong institutions of free choice,
free assembly, and free expression of truth,
must always stay alert to maintain power
because the people form alliances
to challenge his feeble authority
and soon will strike his fragile tower to shards
so haughty fool will fall from heights of pride.
Over twenty-five hundred years ago
Lao-Tzu, wise philosopher of Henan,
wrote little book of poems called Way of Power
in which he talked about the natural Way
and how we can gain calm power over death
by flowing with natural process of life
when moving in harmony with the way
our actions cause construction or destruction.
"If you want to lead your people," Lao wrote
in the fifty-seventh poem of his book,
"with good success to help them grow and thrive,
you must learn to follow the natural way,
and not attempt to control their life process
by letting go the concepts of fixed plans
because the world will govern itself well."
"The more laws prohibiting things you pass
the less people will behave with honest virtue,
the more weapons of death your soldiers wield
the less secure everybody will feel,
and the more you subsidize lazy people
the less they will rely on their own wits."
"Therefore the Master of the Natural Way
declares to every ruler in strong tower,
I stop passing laws that command behavior
and people treat each other with respect,
I stop funding people who will not work
and people work to generate earned wealth,
and I leave people to follow their hearts
and they become serene from active faith,
so I drop desire for the common good
and the good flourishes common as grass."
Though our nation is controlled by the tyrant
who pushes his agenda against nature
in vain attempts to control minds of people,
the people challenge his authority,
asserting process of democracy
to ensure equal justice for all people
which maintains our strong state of liberty.
Though our flexible institutions quail
from vicious assault of his arrogance
to crown himself emperor of our lives
we will unite against his tyranny
and throw him from his haughty tower of pride
for we accept no mortal men of flesh
who dare assert themselves as royal king,
and thus sustain vibrant democracy
where we confirm our souls in self-control.
Never more will kings rule over our land
for every person rules their own free heart
together in our home of liberty.
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