The Rose of Democracy

The Rose of Democracy

USA 2017

It appears that something is arising

Against the elect. An alien emergence

Of a discontent at first not so surprising,

But now mutating toward insurgence.

How delicate is the rose Democracy?

Her petals so beautiful but frail.

Stung by the thorn of a legitimate neocracy,

The former rose keeper becomes enraged beyond scale.

The keeper is confused as if the rose.

An identity it thinks free to change

The flower’s constitution, he would pose.

To the new keeper (the new steward), the former keeper commits to derange.

So, from where is the threat to maintaining the blossom?

Is it a close neighbor or foreign sleeper?

Not a foreigner. The threat is near and it’s terribly awesome!

It’s internal. It’s the old rose keeper.