Governance

 

Governance

 

Paying the tax, what do you acquire?

You have a voice,

If you do not wish in fact

To be a voice.

Does your government work for you?

Or do you work for them?

How can you tell,

Paying the tax.

 

Do you pay the tax?

Are you paying your government?

Who else may be?

Who gets the value of their dollar spent?

Who pays the government?

Did you pay your tax?

 

Where is the governance?

Who is that governance?

Is it a paid position?

Or is it purchased

In the closeted room?

Do you have access?

Did you pay the tax?

 

Isn’t everyone taxed?

Did they pay their tax?

Did they pay in full?

Did they pay less than is fair?

Did they pay at all?

Or did they pay a man?

Where is that governance?

And who are the governed?

Did they pay a tax?

 

 

What is the governance?

Where is the governance?

Is it in the battered halls?

Is it in the hands

Of an old guard beleaguered?

Is it in the hands

Of officials of little integrity?

Is it in the hands of the idealist?

Is it in the lobby?

Where is the governance?

 

Did you pay your tax?

 

Cliff Lake 7/20/2024

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