Who's Killing Democracy?

For years and years now

The artists and the poets, the philosophers and the intellectuals have lamented

Over and over again

Screamed and mourned the death of democracy

And I find that rather funny

Because it's the artists and the poets, the philosophers and the intellectuals, who've been killing democracy, slowly poisoning it bit by bit, each inch of it's wrinkled skin

You see democracy is a binary concept

And the thing with binaries is, there's no middle ground for minorities

In a sea of a billion zeroes, what are a thousand ones but a meagre minority

A fast-perishing minority that can only hope to stay afloat at best

It's ludicrous of them to even think of something as ridiculous as dictating the terms of the sea

The artists and the poets, the philosophers and the intellectuals, they are all ones

And then there are the regular and the mundane and the ordinary, the zeros that make up the sea, or as the artists and the poets, the philosophers and the intellectuals like to call them: mediocre

As the ones gloat in their assumed supremacy, the zeros seek pride in their imagined normalcy

But then, you see democracy is a binary concept

And in a world of binaries, it's all about either/or, no ifs, no buts, no ands

If either wins, or loses, and that is democracy

Questioning democracy in the name of democracy isn't democracy, it is the death of democracy