Follow The Leader

It’s so easy to be led,

to become part of the audience

seduced by powerful words,

by the performance

on the stage where

leaders make followers

not herded like sheep

but running,

with the crowd,

trying to keep up.

Individuals aren’t allowed

in the crowd

and don’t want to be there

don’t want to become

an alternative leader

don’t want to play that game.

And individuality 

doesn’t have the warm glow

of follow my leader,

the togetherness,

the comradeship,

the shouted slogans,

the rousing tunes,

the ceremony.

It's for the few,

the one offs,

the weird,

the misfits.

And where is the crowd 

being led to?

It doesn’t matter.

They’ll go!

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