If You Want To Know Who Rules You Poem by Raymond Farrell

If you really want to know
Who controls your society
Who rules you behind the scene
Ask yourself one question
What group of people
Am I not allowed to criticize
For fear of being sanctioned
In the media or courts
In China it's the Communist Party
In Russia it's Putin
We like to think
There is freedom of speech
In the West
But such thinking is delusional
Because it is not the reality
In which we all live.