DEMOCRACY IS THE WAY

"Democracy is the way" perhaps the greatest lie ever told or so it seems through my African eyes that have watched hope grow old. They say elections bring freedom that ballots are keys to chains but I’ve seen the vote become a veil while poverty still remains. What fills the screens are polished lies campaigns drenched in foreign languages while behind the stage are hidden hands and vaults packed out of sight. Taking turns is never a kind of freedom Promises wrapped in deceit a rigged game played with loaded dice where justice never takes a seat.