DEMOCRACY

Oh Democracy!

Is not that hypocrisy?

A mere pretence

of good sense?

A government of the commoners!

Nay! It is of the strong ones,

The powerful and mighty

Who are at times guilty

of blood baths,

Follow gory paths,

All for the sake of power,

Attraction of the mighty chair,

While people die of hunger,

The unemployed grow in numbers,

Brothers kill brothers,

Humanity stands witness to the rape of sisters,

Populations fleeing nations,

For the fear of unlawful incarceration,

Gunshots, bullets and gore,

We have lost their scores,

No knowledge, nor education thrives,

Religious animosity is revived,

All to help the blood suckers grow,

Gradually to tear us apart and all humanity blow,

Till the lights of wisdom are lit,

When every citizen does his or her bit

For the upliftment of society,

Ask for their rights, refuse crumbs of piety,

Till then democracy, my dears, is a word found in books,

Lyrical and beautiful, but handled by crooks.

©Madhumita