If you listen and think everyone in politics is just a greedy huckster,

Than it might mean you are one too - and keep voting in that crew.

But I believe in democracy.

I believe in people’s goodness,

I believe in its many expressions,

I believe in the humble ascending,

I believe in a diffusion of influence,

I believe in gritty coalition building,

I believe in positions changing hands,

I believe in power shifting like the sands,

I believe in agreements to our fuller humanity,

I believe in it becoming broader into our eternity.

But I do not deny that some in politics are all for greed,

Just as it is plain to see some are for the greater need.

But to brush-stroke democracies' many messes,  

Is to elevate only the cruelest monotheistic voices,

Those who try imprison its mystical inner function,

Which wanders within looking for better outcomes.

Yet, authority can be imparted democratically,

When the people’s will feels hearted to a cause,

A wellness within and out they feel they’ve lost,

By seeing a better future to fulfill without cost.

Ah democracy, forever stay with me,

Be my voice rising within a felt chorus,

My anger to change power’s hardness,

My hope to be what I feel we express,

My vision I see stretched beyond us,

To be unto all as eternal honest love,

To be unto green earth as life reborn.