Making It Real
We can talk of many concepts,
Debate and even write them down,
But they’re unreal if none accepts
They are rooted in the solid ground.
So it is for Democracy,
That implausible way to live.
In theory it seems near crazy,
To make our neighbors combative.
How simple to be told what’s right
By a wise and God named ruler.
Let the informed say when to fight
And not some offended dueler.
Might you trust in the guy next door
If the adequate rules were made?
To welcome some distant vote more
With careful foundation laid?
It is a challenge to be met
To change theory into nation.
We have not got it quite right yet,
But it’s not imagination.
When you can see and I agree,
The abstract gains reality.
The pure concept may never be,
But we don’t live in fantasy.
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