THE TRUTH BEHIND POLITICS

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In the midst of hunger
Disease
Poverty
And lack of development,
You will find the politicians,
Shady characters claiming to be worthy leaders.


In a time of war,
Chaos,
Anarchy,
An illusion of freedom,
Shackling of free speech
And propagation of warped justice,
You’ll find a politician busy tugging at these strings,
The puppet master,
The diligent farmer
Cultivating these rotten seeds.


As greed runs amok,
Lessons of selfish thinking
Being preached as righteous and just,
Impunity endorsed as acceptable acts,
The common man drinks water from gutters and depressions
Feeds off carrion,
Walks on legs like those of a stick insect
Carrying a body draped in a rubbery skin
With defined cheekbones and ribs
Threatening to step out into the sunlight,
You will find a politician and a thief
All riding in flashy cars
And choking on food and drink.


Lies,
Half-truths,
Propaganda
With the common man on all fours
Carrying the weight of an entire nation
In taxes and tariffs
While a select few live like kings and queens
For they’ve embraced the ways of the snake,
Shifty eyes,
Slippery tongues
Sticky fingers,
Those are the traits of the politician.


What is politics?
Just a refined art of stealing,
Instead of wearing masks and scaling walls
With locally manufactured pistols in their pants,
They coagulate into groups,
Stand for elections,
Just a contest to find out who can scream the loudest
And who’s got the most money.
They go on to wield the reigns of power
And cling to the sides of the common man like leeches,
Sucking relentlessly
While the host gradually grinds to a halt.
Politicians,
Thieves,
And leeches,
Just words with similar meaning that make reference to
The age old craft of banditry
Recently refined with suits and words slicker than cans of oil.