Poem:

Prosperity is the summation

of Liberty’s answer

to slavery and repression.

To the turmoil of hostility

toward freedom of individualism.

To the emptiness of the reservoir

of the spirit that gushes

from the depth of the soul.

To folly on the part of those

who selfishly maintain

that people could be better served

by thinking and speaking for them,

when they should think

and speak for themselves.