Democracy eclipsed
Witness the last rites in the final mockery.
Exaggerated elegy over the
Corpse of democracy, less a
Lament of the dead, laying there for all to see
Interred in public, than a
Paean, full of triumph in dubious honour of the ones who
Slaughtered her.
Even the days grow dark as we sit and witness this final humiliation.
About the Creator
Roderick Makim
Read one too many adventure stories as a child and decided I'd make that my life.
I grew up on a cattle station in the Australian Outback and decided to spend the rest of my life seeing the rest of the world.
For more: www.roderickmakim.com
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