Since governments must be
For the people,
Leaders, once they have been elected
By them, must ensure
That people are first protected
From their own opinions.
Remember that every one of two
Who vote for us is likely to be
An emotive dunce.
Thus, disregarding informed inputs
From the Fourth Estate,
And sundry busybody votaries
Of democracy,
The crowned numero uno had better
Trust his own ancient legacy.
It will not do to be swayed
By studies of this or that
Made by some knowledgeable cat
Whose so strenuous fact
Fails treacherously to agree
With our ordained contract
With power, pelf, and chicanery.
There are times of danger
To the nation, post successful election,
Which require that those who have
Voted us to the throne
Be, for the larger good, securely
Locked up in detention centres
Or houses of their own.
A town in traitorous turmoil
Cannot be at peace until its streets
Are emptied of residents on the boil.
Democracy may be for the people,
But they must first be for the nation;
And nation is quite different from
The town’s population.
Elected as we are on their behalf,
Our speech is their own;
So why need people to exert
To make their anguish known?
Their best medicine is that they hear
Our grand plans for them in the future.
The present is always dissatisfactory;
Thus people must learn to tarry
Till we are elected the next time again
To carry forward our promises
For every right-thinking child,
Woman, man.
Most of all, people must understand
That “development” is the true aim
And purpose of democracy—
Not freedom or dissent.
What value has bickering about
Earthly woes, when Chandrayan
Is hitting the firmament?
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