The Cold Warmth of Economic Cruelty
by Michael Doyle

What is now happiness in its pursuit,
Was once the right to own property.
Democratic Socialism grows at the roots,
While voters forget the tie-in with prosperity.

It only needs a little patch of land
From which the people can make their stand
Against the failure of economies planned,
And to leave the People, not government, in command.

Everyone has the right to their own home,
A place of refuge to seek a sheltered position.
There's an absolute right to its protection.
It's there we make the stand to stand alone.

America stands at a crossroad in history.
We can die at the hands of collective socialism,
Pretending it is warmth, and not cruelty.
It is perhaps the cruelest path of ulterior pessimism.

The wrongness of a so-called enlightened path
Is the grandchild of duped nepotism.
The evidence of the philosophic ills of Marxian math
Is leading the way of loss found at the base of communism.

If they can take away private property,
It is as easy to take away our liberty.
Property is, after all, the distinction
That prevents freedom from being lost to extinction.

Anyone, the least politically capable,
Knows that liberty and property are inseparable.
It's simply a matter of common sense,
Failing to protect property causes tyranny to commence.

(c) January 5, 2026   Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved