Charlatans All

They guise themselves as subservient
to the will of the people for they are
themselves of the people they reassure
skeptics and believers alike and they
have no reason to portray themselves
other than champions of the classless
the underdogs, the downtrodden, those
who have traditionally been kicked to
the side, their pleas for recognition as
worthy of regard, to be lifted out of
poverty, to taste liberty as a basic
endowment of human rights for if they
believe otherwise what use is hope?
Such is reality that when the Hosannas
at salvation from greed and tyranny
expire, these national saviours find the
expressway to corruption and dictatorship
irresistible as the ecstasy of power and
the nectar of authority consume earlier
ambitions to be to those they represent
the hero, in the greater preference of
undisputed, uninterrupted imperial rule.