Election Paradigms Poem by John Sensele

Elections worldwide sail through uncharted waters
Where systems, procedures and processes
Have gone under scrutiny and surveillance in matters
Of transparency, efficiency, efficacy in scored successes and reverses.

Far right parties in Europe, demagogues and ideologues
Have gripped the heart of politics and pragmatics
To the extent where their election agenda abhor blogs
Online and social media award they veer away from sarcastics.

Candidates with all shades and grades of political persuasion
Populate landscapes within scopes that petrify and electrify
Opinions of zillions of followers and hewers who in due season
Condone, contribute, conserve, correct and convert substance and circumstance that stupefy.

As means of leadership renewal and survival of political novelty
Elections encompass a spectrum of beliefs, briefs and chiefs
Who on balance embrace tolerance in abundance with neither cruelty
Nor arrogance flaunted and vaunted under victory celebration kerchiefs.

Elections whose orientation, dispensation and motivation
Hinge on sowing seeds of division, derision with a proclivity
To entrench opacity, to kill transparency, to promote a persuasion
That retard democracy and veer towards autocracy deplete their electricity and validity.