G. Stolyarov II
And my offense? Naught but my age.
I'll suffer pestilence and gore,
And die upon a foreign stage.
The verdict has been passed by those
Who wish to equal me to rags,
Plug sand into a breathing nose,
Borrow my life, return dog-tags.
They tell me, "Freedom is not free,"
And thus they seek mine to deprive.
But no! I'll courage have to flee,
To choose to prosper and survive!
The right that mine was from the womb,
That I had bought with Reason's gold,
I shall not lay before a tomb,
But will Self's Shrine from robbers hold.
I claim no more than what is mine;
To rise each morning when I will,
To build, compose, create, refine,
And heed no Congressman's dread bill,
Whose parasitic voting bloc
My soul as spoils of war would claim,
No noble war of awe and shock,
But rabble-rousers' power game.
When nations seek me for their slave,
Their cause, their plight shall pass in vain.
Let no man give but what he gave,
Of his own will, for his own gain.
Freedom can't stand on sacrifice;
With blood and bones I shan't it craft.
I shall not offer prey to vice,
And, proudly, I shall dodge this draft!
G. Stolyarov II is a science fiction novelist, independent filosofical essayist, poet, amateur mathematician and composer, contributor to Enter Stage Right and SoloHQ, writer for Objective Medicine, and Editor-in-Chief of The Rational Argumentator, a magazine championing the Western principles of Reason, Rights, and Progress.
Mr. Stolyarov is also the recipient of the February 2004 Editor's Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, presented by poetry.com and the International Library of Poets.
He can be contacted at gennadystolyarovii@yahoo.com.
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