Relative Rights

If you want to be a cop

You have to be the bigger man

(Even at a traffic stop).

You take risks so others can

Enjoy their life and liberty;

Which means you do not get to claim

Your own safety's supremacy

Above the public's. Oh, for shame!

To say your fear lets you deprive

Another's rights, or shoot to kill

When you have promised all to strive

For their protection, come what will.

Your honor comes precisely from

Defending them and their freedom.

Calvin and Hobbesism

My dog, I fear, is not of the elect.
Not that she lacks good works (although she does)
For those who value them are not correct
False as the famed Iscariot once was
But rather for her failure (evermore)
To show contrition. A remorseful heart,
Aware of sin, and with that sin selfsore,
Not fearful of the danger or the smart,
But truly inward full of vital grace
Would be sufficient, but it is not there.
She has no sorrow in her inward place
And only cringes from a sudden scare.
Therefore, although a wonderful playmate
I know my dog to be a reprobate.