Thursday, October 6, 2011

'What Price U.S Democracy?' by Jacquelyne Taylor

WHAT PRICE?
U.S DEMOCRACY!
NOOSE KNOTTED RANK HYPOCRISY..
NOT JUSTICE SERVED..
BY HANGMAN'S ROPE
NOR WITH DEATH'S DANGLE,
RISE OF HOPE!
  
REVENGE A FLEET TREAT
SOURED WITH COST...
OF MORAL HIGHGROUND, MORE LIVES LOST
NOR PRESIDENCY A DISGUISE
FOR KILLERS LIVE IN VARIED GUISE..
ALL TYRANTS' TONGUES..
FORK WITH DELUSION
AND WARS FOR PEACE..
THE SHARED ILLUSION!
  
WHAT PRICE U.S DEMOCRACY?
WILL WARS ON TERROR KEEP US FREE?
ILLEGAL MOVES, INHUMANE ACTS..
ABSENCE OF TRUTHS,
DISTORTED FACTS.
ONE DESPOT DIES
STILL MAD MEN REIGN!
THE CORPSE COUNTS MOUNT,
AND WHO'S TO GAIN?
THE OLD YEARS PASS ,AND NEW ONES DAWN.
YET MORE CADAVER'S MOTHERS MOURN!
  
WHAT PRICE OF COURSE?
AN IRONY!
FOR NO PRICE...
BUYS  US PEACE YOU SEE.
AND THEREIN,
SAD REALITY
OF WHAT IS NOT DEMOCRACY
IT'S ACTUALLY
RAW
HEGEMONY!




















'Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.' (John Adams 2nd U.S President)

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