Give and Take

Give and Take

"Give," I say, "but give by choice."
Let givers rise in one voice
to decree this is the way
to help the poor, those in need
who have no other way to feed
their families each day.

Take not from those who've paid
the price to make their own way.
Riches are their right to keep
without an apology.
Those who work should always be
given right to peaceful sleep.

Those who take who could labor
aren't entitled to favor.
We've become a nanny state
where folks think that at their cry
the "government" should comply
to fill up their house and plate.

There's no government supply,
it all comes from you and I
who have our money taken
by bureaucrats and politicians
who would destroy our nation
and leave freedom forsaken.

Rights to life and liberty
and pursuit to be happy
are what must be protected.
Every man will get to choose
which rights he desires to lose
by who he has elected.

Take a right from any man,
you begin to kill this land -
that our fathers fought to keep.
We become what they deplored
when we open up the door
and in Communism creeps.

Copyright  © 2008 by Karen M. Crump