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Democrazy!!!!

A poem by Wasim Khan

All this talk about democracy is driving me crazy
Waiting for a solution with no signs of a resolution
This country was not built on corruption
Yet we are in 3rd place on criminal perception
So thank-you very much for giving us that hope
Thank-you very much but you cant have my vote

When a judge says, "Innocent until proven guilty"
Is he asking for a bribe?
Tell me what lies behind his black coat
Tell me what lies has he told to be in his position
Can you teach me his policy, surely it isn't honesty

Power to the people or people of the power
The rest of us are just sitting like cowards
Listening to a broken record and our National Song

Thinking, this is not where we belong
Thinking, all that was
good is gone

Democracy is about people coming together
Not tearing each other apart
Not a two-party war to bring back the old days
Its a new beginning and a chance for the young
Its about searching and finding the immaculate one

So don't come to me preaching your philosophy
I am not even going to vote
What you call democracy is a joke!

Democrazy!!!!

An article by Didarul Alam Sunny

This is an inspiring poem written by one of my friends, Wasim Khan. The question also aroused in my mind is that, “Does democracy exist between us or is thing which is passing through us is just democrazy!?”

We've fought for the freedom of our country with the hope of a better world. With the hope that we will get justice, with the hope, it will be run by us. But all these dreams are now blurring in front of us. We don't even know where we are going! We can't see the future as we have been blindfolded by the Democrazy. We really do fear to give our vote to someone and then be treated as a slave.

I have failed to draw a line between 1990 and 2006. I like to say that the previous time was better then now. At least, then we were not taught to fight against each other whilst living in the same country; they did not teach us to fight for power, and how to abuse it.

It's really hard to listen but we know it to be true that now we are acting as puppets in the hands of the politicians, the way they want us to dance; we blindly follow that.

Now, we have to say 'Sir' to the ruffians, because they have the power.

The politicians have more than one way to put us in prison. Without any valid issues all the year long, they call for strikes and blockades! These virtually put us in the prison in our own homes. They don't even think about how the poor nation will recover the heavy load of loss each day amounting to 500-700 cores. Ohh! I forget, why should they think? The only question moving in their minds is how to own the most profitable seat of the country “Mr. or Mrs. Prime Minister, minister or at least MP shaheb.”

All day long the politicians are shouting “save democracy and vote for me,” and I ask myself, will he really give us the dream? But simultaneously I ask myself, “Why should I pledge my vote to these people, who never kept their promises to give us a better world where real democracy would be practiced.”

(Writers are the students of American International University - Bangladesh)