Election Fever

Emancipation must be sustained by a plebescite Legitimizing governance of the people by the people Each man a citizen, each citizen a natural right Citizens balloting the franchise of desire, dreams to steeple Temple and parliament in power - balanced and aimed Inspired by justice deep root, and equality's branches Organizing security and economy a state is framed Nurturing a growth of kings from soldiers common trenches Fickle tongued, the candidates flicking syllables come Ego twining itself around the poll of each dream Vision warming its blood in rodent cornered freedom Empty platforms with the loss of ideas once supreme Rising above the narrow, petty partisan hope of mad men seen as sane