Democracy
What Does Democracy Mean to a People? Adena M’lynn 2025 (spoken word) Writers workshop 2025 Democracy— ain’t just a word tucked neat in a textbook, it’s breath in the lungs of the unheard, it’s a seat at the table for the kid who always stood outside the door, it’s knowing your story matters—even if the world says it don’t. To a people, it’s power without permission, it’s protest without prison, it’s building something real with nothing but hope and the bones of those who dared to dream before us. It’s choosing leaders, not surviving rulers. It’s being seen. It’s being counted. It’s being human. And when it works— when it really works— democracy becomes more than a system, it becomes a mirror, reflecting back a people who refuse to be erased. How can so many not see the evil before their eyes? It walks among them—dressed in suits, cloaked in law, wrapped in flags, smiling wide behind polished podiums. It speaks with calm voices on evening news and shouts from pulpits that once pre...