Every election you show up Like a skanky rooster faithfully marking the morning register.
One would think you bereft of speech We still hear echoes of your voice; The roads made of sand The bridges made of wood The exports made of wind -
Those haunting echoes To mark the four year yuletide of forlorn looking ghosts That forget they ever lived.
Yet here you are Your speech drawing on our paltry spirits Hoisted up by our strict diets of expensive carbs - Purchased by currency That pants as a man, racing a horse.
You speak and we hear A comical clash Between your present talk and your ghostly echoes We also lend our voices; A third force, More like third-rate really Like a measley bus scrunched between two colliding trains.
You speak of roads Of bridges Of exports "Infrastructure"
We see sand And wood And wind And we cheer -
When you say: "Infrastructure" Like we expect Jericho's walls To come down -
With our third-rate voices, We With growing heads and thinning grey matter- Four more years And it will all be gone.
This is a protest poem against the activities of politicians in third world countries, who promise the electorate the dividends of democracy every election, fail to deliver their promises, but somehow, still keep getting re elected.