Isolationism by Fred L. Taulbee Jr.

Isolationism
By

Fred L. Taulbee Jr.

Isolationism

By

Fred L. Taulbee Jr.

You built a moat around your castle
Filled it with alligators
And took up the draw bridge
But that wasn’t enough

Your soldiers walked the walls

Loosening my grappling hooks

Pushing down my ladders

Burning my Trojan horses

So you made yourself a country unto yourself

And you built up a wall

You made laws that affected me

You practiced isolationism

You collapsed my tunnels

Killed my agents

And destroyed the antennae

For Radio Free Me

You made it illegal to aid and abet me

You made it illegal to have my pictures or say my name

And when that wasn’t enough

You sent your bounty hunters after me

You put me in stocks

You put me in jail for life

You put me to the lash

But it wasn’t enough for you

You put me in the dungeon

Shackled me up on a wall

Put me to the rack

And now you’re twisting the thumbscrews

But things haven’t changed

I’m still in love with you

You can keep twisting

And whipping

And building

And shackling me

And torturing me

But you won’t change the way I feel

You’ll only change the way you show your love