What Can We Say?

What can we say?

Just say “yes sir!!”

To comply

With what the Government 

And media want.

Dare I criticize

Have an opposite view

Or state what I believe

And defend those

Who can’t speak for themselves?

As Paul McCartney sings

Banned Beatles in Red Square

Political songs censored

In the land of the free

Where have I gone?

Religious right, blind and ignorant

Liberal left hypocritical and two-faced

Democracy where has it gone?

Those who died for it

Must wonder why they did! 

27th September 2003, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America.

-Richard