THE THEORY OF COMMUNISM

 

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THE THEORY OF COMMUNISM?

 

The theory of communism

may have first whispered to him

long before he knew its name

back when he was just a young lad

wandering through cool summer fields,

the red‑clay roads curling gently

over green hills like ribbons

laid down by a kinder world.

Potato farms quilted the meadows,

sheep drifted like pale clouds across the grass,

and wild blueberries hid in patches

only children ever seemed to find.

Lavender breathed its soft perfume

into the warm air

a beauty so delicate

it felt like something

borrowed from God’s own hand,

something only a woman could fully understand.

The rivers were always calling then.

Trout flashed beneath the surface,

daring every Huck Finn dreamer

to skip school, thread a worm on a hook,

and cast a bamboo line

into glacial lakes that held the sky

as if afraid to let it go.

Those were the days

untouched by the noise of the world

days before the shadow

of nuclear fire hung over our lives,

before hatred learned to speak loudly,

before ambivalent politicians and

delusional governments

proved how easily they could disappoint.

It was a time when life felt simple,

honest, and endlessly possible

a time when ideas could bloom

quietly in the open air,

rooting themselves in the soft soil

of a boy’s heart

long before he understood

what they would one day mean.

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