Rules And Rulers For Friend Thad Poem by ivor or ivor.e hogg

Bureaucracy has quietly
displaced the aristocracy.
Who wielded power openly
The bureaucrat rule secretly.

What seems to be democracy
is now subverted constantly.
Countenanced by apathy
Because the people cannot see.

The government machinery
which is kept hidden cleverly.
Is not the way that it should be.
The dead hand of bureaucracy.

Controls it very thoroughly.
Should they decide to disagree.
There is no way that they can be
brought to account effectively.

I do not ask you to agree,
but to consider carefully.
Only the possibility,
we are ruled by bureaucracy.

15-Oct-08