MY ALLEGIANCE - The Abandoned Project / Canto VII

Most likely to be published sometime in latter 2017 or early 2018, my 10th book currently entitled; 100 Proems & Poems on the HUMAN ABILITY to REASON, HUMAN RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included (in the bonus section) upon further editing, and front cover below merely a working version....

CANTO VII - Sweet Redolence of Benevolence


To convert the precept of charity into a precept of rigorous justice,
is equally repugnant to reason, and to the sense of the text.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (statesman, 1727-1781)
The Turgot Collection (book)


Laws for pelf of wealth by theft in stealth
Parallel to love by subjection hid in passion
Comparable to peace by missile and muzzle
Gain or virtue retaining not by the censures
Of military ventures and political lynchers
Null is character as per masters' resources
Course individual voided by force fraternal
Melding to remorse liken horse and bridle
Intention to ascension then the presumption
Or imposition, thus depletion of possession
Deducible privation and untenable fruition
Ah, the sweet redolence of benevolence
Turning reek of thievery by coercive charity
Philanthropy by pillage from city to village
Or town and hamlet, taxing all and their tillage
Until all mere vassalage to voted royalty
Or worse, citizenry is serf to majority's thirst
Yet expediency is terse as the curse lingers

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

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