The Road Not Yet Been

Once, not too many

Generations past,

There were competing

Ideas about how

Best a polity

Could be run, not all

Of those ideas yet

Tested by real states.

They seemed like options—

Communes, republics,

True democracies,

Lock-step tyrannies,

Capitalism

Or communism.

Now there hasn’t been

A fresh suggestion,

Either good or bad,

In a century.

One-party systems,

Nationalist states,

Tyrannical toughs,

Parliamentary

Democracies, all

Dance, rise and fall.

Capitalism

Lives some eternal

Late stage, with degrees

Of socialism

And tyranny mixed

Together in it.

Seems like someone should

Think of something new,

Really new, that might

Better serve this world.

Once there were no kings,

No dynasties, then

Long millenniums

Of them. We’re nearing

Royal rule’s ash end.

Let’s begin again.