by Allan CF Goh

Election is for folks
To make meaningful choice;
To choose moral people
To represent our voice.
It’s time to elect folks
Of good integrity,
To helm the government,
With perfect propriety.

This is to prevent chaos,
As well as corruption;
To safeguard civil rights
And their slow erosion.
Elected officials
Serve with people’s consent;
They are public servants,
To make good our dissent.

Bad government begins
With people’s indifference
To stealthy wrong doings.
Let’s make a big difference,
By voting in good folks,
Who are wise, efficient,
Filled full of righteousness;
And not men deficient.

All the public malaise,
Starts with our inaction
To stop the rot quickly,
To make fast correction.
General election
Is for people to change
A regime for the better,
With good sense, not deranged.

Democracy’s great gift,
Is to give folks the votes.
Vote wisely, carefully,
Vote good people of note.
Make sure the government
Is most answerable
To people’s want and need.
It must be clean, able.

Come this Election Day,
Let’s vote for salvation,
Free of foul racism,
Free of vile corruptions.
Let us build a country,
Brimming with harmony,
With ability, grace;
Without acrimony.