Jury's Still Out, I Guess, on Democracy

July 6, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Independence Day (USA).

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An Independence Day poem about the uncertainty of democracy’s survival:

Jury’s still out, I guess, on democracy.

Unfortunately, it ever will be so.

Let go the wished-for verdict, let it go,

Yielding to a sure uncertainty.

False democracies continually

Overrun wherever laws can’t grow.

Underneath our waves, an undertow

Returns our hopes for freedom to the sea.

The forecast even here now threatens pain --

Here, where we must rise again, again.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Independence Day (USA)

7/1: Justice Now Means Food, Health, Habitation

7/2: Indeed, from Whom or What Are Rights Derived

7/3: Justice Is a Collection Agency

7/4: Indeed, This Should Be Interdependence Day

7/5: Inevitably, the World Will Be One Country

7/6: Jury’s Still Out, I Guess, on Democracy