Sunday, February 19, 2023

The Fight for Democracy

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: WORLD DEMOCRACY


The Fight for Democracy

 

Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel

Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua

Viktor Orban in Hungary

Recep Erdogan in Turkey

 

The fight for democracy

Takes to the streets

Spread the word of truth

To everyone you meet

 

From Budapest to Istanbul

From Jerusalem to Managua

From Tallahassee to Tbilisi

From Atlanta to Kiev

 

The enemies of democracy

Growing bolder, growing strong

We’ve set off the alarm bells

We’ve seen it coming all along

 

The brazen warnings in Taiwan

The crackdown in Hong Kong

They want to crush free press

In every way that’s wrong

They want to curb the right to vote

They’re pushing hard and strong

 

If we want to keep our freedom

If we want to keep our rights

We will have to grasp reality

We’re in a long hard fight

 

No one said it would be easy

The struggle never ends

Self-government will survive

If only we defend

 

The people’s right to speak

The people’s right to choose

As long as we hold strong

The people cannot lose

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