Hello World

Hello World, you can have my hopes and dreams; you killed them before they were born. You robbed me of them before I even knew them. You took my could be's.

Now I stand before you bereft and naked, barren of soul and will.

Aimless I come to you and ... die with each step.

Why did you kill me? What was my crime?

You came to me as a lover in my youth; tempting me with candied futures. You led me with golden dreams of varied sort, and now you betray me.

Give me back the Dream. Replace the veil you took from me so stealthily and cruelly. Restore to me my innocence.

Please.

All you have left me is the hollow truth of now; a horror I cannot abide.

Hello World, close my eyes.

Obamacare... is a tax?

With the 5-4 vote of the Supreme Court, Obamacare is now in full swing and ready to slap the nation silly come 2014 and continue it's escalation of abuse until 2016 when it becomes an annual event. And though I see the contrivance of Obamacare as little more than a social atrocity, the decision of the Supreme Court is more so. Why?

This is because by declaring Obamacare to be valid under the taxation clause of the Constitution the Supreme Court has granted unto the Legislative Branch a new and far reaching power. This power is the power to tax the public into a behavior, or rather tax the public for not doing something. For the nonce, from 2014 forward, we will be taxed for not having health insurance. Silence the arguments about the "social necessity" for a moment and listen, please. This new taxation realm now allows the government to socially engineer the country.

Suppose, a future administration is in favor of green technology. A new tax is passed and suddenly any vehicle that isn't a hybrid or electric is taxed. Houses are taxed for not being solar. Home owners are taxed for not gardening. Or suppose they decide to tax you for not buying some technology, for not going to the doctor, for not going fishing, for not saving money, or even for not spending money. The list of things the government can now tax the public for NOT doing is nigh on endless.

Worse yet, not only has this new idea been introduced to the world, but if the U.S. government begins to utilize this taxation ability without it being struck down by the people then other countries will follow suit. Even without the U.S. government acting on it, the idea is out there now and some government will try to run with it.

This outcome, to my mind, is not hyperbole nor simply excessive negativity, but rather a certain surety that the government, as it currently exists, is a money grubbing organism. And with this new found power will find ways to justify the power's use, but always for the "greater good".

The government must be corrected, and it is the voice of the people that must do it.

Oh, it's you again

Curiosity my old foe
How quickly you defeat me
Though I try, I cannot fight
You are like a beau
You know what makes me me
And entices wrong from right

Why can I not defeat you
I only want to know
What can I ever do
to escape this mental limbo

I cannot win, that is certain
So I'll tame you ere I'm bitten

Splice the words

Spite and venom, demon's tongue!
Evil hateful cutting words.
Cries for solace gone unheard.
In your anger and your malice
you place yourself in ivory palace
never thinking how it's made
you with your heart of jade.
You scoff, you scorn, you kick, you scream
you rip asunder and break the dream.
You break my arm. You twist my limb.
Stealing breath from her and him.
And now you would reign supreme,
or so it does ever seem.
But this one thing you have not learned,
power can't be taken, it must be earned.
Split the hairs, splice the words
come back for seconds or even thirds.
But this I tell you and tell you true,
this dream will never be ruled by you.

Here stands...

Here stands forgotten the hero of us all.
A figure of nobility to both great and small.
Frozen forever with unseeing eyes
guarding against the darkness and its lies.
Firm and unmoving, ever in motion
seeking the ideal, the pure moral notion.

Here stands remembered the traitor to the cause.
A symbol of scorn, a swearword without pause.
Living in stone, having life of it's own.
Proclaims proudly knowledge of the unknown.
Firm and unmoving, ever afraid
of the hatching of the egg it laid.

Here they stand, known and un
in endless battle yet to be won.

And so did Babylon

"I judge not," the lady said,
as she craned her neck, and lifted her head.
"So the child sinned, many do.
It doesn't mean her soul is black through and through."
Blood rushed to the woman's face,
as her voice grew in strength, her words pace.
"It's not right to punish so for her wrongs,
it's her voice, her music, her songs!
It's not right, I say! That she pay the consequences
for her life is her own. She shouldn't need fences!
Why should her past deeds haunt her life?
Why should her poisoned well still cause her strife?
No I judge not. I judge not at all."
And so did Babylon self-righteously fall

Come, let's glorify evil

Come, let's glorify evil,
and turn vice to virtue;
put justice outside the law.
Let's make the villains heroes
and the sinners saints.

Come, let's look into the darkness
and claim to see the dawn.

Come, turn good to ill,
destroy the many for the few,
turn the world into a seesaw.
Let's make the victims sinners
and the vile above such taints.

Come, step into the darkness
and dance on the devil's lawn.