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From: Stewart Acuff <acuff.stewart@gmail.com>
Date: April 8, 2017 at 10:04:19 PM EDT
To: Stewart <acuff.stewart@gmail.com>
Subject: Democracy
Democracy is unknowable
Unless you've experienced it
Then the loss of democracy is unthinkable
Born to be free hard tho it may be
We were not born to democracy
Democracy is learned, taught
Struggled with and for age after age
Learning or teaching democracy starts with a thought
What if a people could govern themselves
Instead of being governed by the strongest or meanest or just wiliest or richest
What if a people could decide collectively
How to live together, which way is best
It is never a given, this democracy
Always threatened under attack by those whose souls lack the fullness
Of light, unable to see
And again the people must wage the age old fight and be bold
To preserve the promise of humanity
And the fullness of our collective soul
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