Hail! Democracy
02/02/2021
Corruption is now the currency,
of the mind, body and soul.
A somber voice
A mourner declared,
look, my child
there goes democracy,
on the shoulders of extremists,
to be cremated, for certain.
No, no Phoenix
this time, it's ashes to ashes
never to rise again.
I stood solemnly,
watching the funeral procession
The pallbearers, all looked familiar
They were the enablers,
the pacifiers of evil.
There were no tears,
no sadness in their eyes
Entrenched,
moral compass skewed
Self, only self survival,
now paramount
Whether ruling, or in contention,
disruption, the final objective
Yet all the subjects heard
Hail! Democracy
What became evident
They were all Brutus's
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Author:
SureshG (
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- Comment from author about the poem: I wrote this last year after noticing the total corruption of the Republicans morals. It seems they are unwilling to mend their ways.
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Just as was evident before we saw the recent attempts to claw back some decency in the face of utter humiliation brought to those republicans with a semblance of conscience by the buffoon Trump. He seems to have brought about the largest ever display of a split america since the civil war.
A chasm so deep, that fires of hatred will consume all sensibility.
Well the establishment in certain areas has been ignoring peoples rights to equality. It seems some are more equal than others in the eyes of the established law enforcers. Peaceful demonstration has been tried and failed so far.
Who lit the fires and kept them burning? The country (actually a republic) which likes to think of itself as a paragon of democracy has a disgraceful record and stands as a paragon of hypocrisy in its current condition. America is deserving of better but are it's people as deserving as the notion?
So many true words, the few in power do not care for the many who put them there.
Andy
dear insightful Poet, may I humbly suggest you look past 'their' games of 'taking sides',
I am not judging or criticising, merely daring to share an unpopular opinion, so please take no offence, I beg...
'my message is as simple as: peace, in the eyes of those who recognise their own dirt within each bloody tear - they've spilled...'
why must 'democracy' be belittled to the realms of 'byte' sized consumption? for ease of access? so that our 'plug n play' society of cesspool conformity can 'pick' easily...
if democracy is the best interpretation of 'freedom' within a 'political' framework, why can't we perceive it as a 'pick n mix' buffet...
where we prioritise a party's 'actionable plan' of policies over 'their' fallible 'flesh n blood' representatives,
why must we distil every opportunity for our representation to two limiting paths, how long do we dwell on 'good vs bad' as our only alternatives within existence...
'why must everything come down to battle lines and fences, where we project all our rage to the opposing side and save all our empathy for those on 'our' side...'
it's 2021? when will we 'majority' stop being taken for fool's?
'it's oppression strategy 1 of one:
'divide to conquer'....
and here we are, letting ourselves be divided into
politics' bunker's of self-identity,' where we feed extremism all the ingredients necessary, then stare down and judge it's 'taste or appearance on our horizon's platter, acting ignorant of the bitterness it stemmed from'...
will we ever take accountability for each and every decision we make individually and its consequences globally/universally in this era of interconnectivity...
Life is no mere on/off simplicity of electricity, we are not binary programmed robots,
we are nature's creatures 'still' evolving with our connection to sentient experience's, so let us act accordingly and take ownership of our own lives - first!
why must we be dictated to, how is that any better than being subjugated?
let us, instead - empower ourselves: to think, our own thought's and then match them to 'Policies' that best represent the answers to our need's,
knowing sometimes, we may not find a policy to match with and having the 'bravery to wait' and demand for representative's that can provide us with what we need, never 'settling' for what's 'good enough' for us to 'align' with in the short-sighted hope that we can guarantee our inclusion and have 'our self-worth justified' by those: far - far more 'LOST', than we are...
(forgive my tirade, feel free to delete this comment, I understand completely)
but I humbly thank you for inspiring my little reply all the same, sorry politics is a trigger topic and I lack the self control to simply: ignore
You are an individual and as such in a democratic society you have an absolute right to express yourself. That freedom, so far as it does not impinge on another's right, should never be surrendered.
What I am addressing is how recent events of sheer vileness absconded with common decency and how this vileness was allowed to ferment, at the risk of destroying the frail fabric of democracy.
I can assure you that had this continued for another four years, the world order would have collapsed.
I have no political affinity to any one party, but I do believe that if we allow extremists to subvert our compassionate decency, we will no longer be a democracy.
I know, again I apologise for simply going into a tirade and not having the decency to engage more directly with the content of your write dear Poet,
it's just this pantomime representation of 'democracy' I'm frustrated by, where media dictates who the good and bad is, inundates us day and night with information that plays into 'their' caricature characterisations and then demands we do the 'right' thing...
I completely agree Trump allowed himself to be vilified when catering to extremist antics, that he deemed necessary to align with, to 'tap into' voters he could manipulate, while serving the needs of the 1% with his policies...
I agree with you completely, he wasn't fit to garner support for any office in public service.... but,
have you checked out Joe Biden's past quotes?
anyway, what do I know? I'm just a drop in the Ocean, just wish the general public would stop buying into such blatant hypocrisies...
let me apologise one last time, and thank you for the kindness you've chosen to show by allowing me to vent a little, you've clearly shown yourself to be the 'wiser adult' in our brief exchange, lol
I live and learn... (hopefully)
I must admit that I do fear for the future and despite being apolitical, I am very much aware that there are some extremely dangerous individuals that hold high office around the globe who care nothing about their fellow countrymen, any other, or indeed the world in general .......
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