08 December 2007

hobbesian liberty

we're only free in silence of the law
what we most want is absence of great dread
not to risk slaughter nightly in each bed

we most loathe nature free and wild and raw
the arrow to the heart is swiftly sped
we're only free in silence of the law

the dam holds back the force of spring's great thaw
for order not for freedom men have bled
and terror knocks all nonsense from the head
we're only free in silence of the law

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