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LETTER | 

You were born after independence, for our nation.
Set up under Article 114 of the Federal Constitution,
To regulate and oversee the running of an election.
With efficiency and transparency, was your mission.

Your task to register voters, strike out the deceased,
Oversee borders of constituencies if populations increased.
Appropriately redraw boundaries, if under-represented,
The guardian of the electorate, fairly administrated.

A partisan body of independence and scrutiny,
You held in your palms the country’s destiny.
Why did you choose instead to create disharmony?
With blatant gerrymandering beyond scrutiny?

Did you think we would be quiet forever,
That you could manipulate us whenever?
That we were brainless, or not as clever,
And we would never fight back, ever?

How wrong you were, you great authority,
We swept aside six decades of tyranny.
Fed up with your corruption and superiority,
You underestimated us, we are not a minority.

We queued up for hours, baking in the heat,
Determined, silently waiting, refusing defeat.
With wrongly labelled boxes, why did you cheat?
Did you think we are sheep just here to 
bleat?

We the Rakyat are not stupid, make no mistake.
Be accountable for the responsibility you undertake.
Did you not care that our freedom was at stake?
Our right to vote, yours to safeguard and 
caretake?

And so we stained our fingers with crimson,
Unfolded the ballot papers, acting in unison.
Our will unbending, steely, despite your jettison,
Hearts and hands trembling with our weapon.

Did you see our power when ignited, united?
Toppling the monsters that you knighted?
Your turn will come, spotted, investigated,
Corruption and cronyism unearthed, blighted.

Behold and witness our silent revolution,
Quietly and peacefully, in Malaysian tradition.

Demise of a kleptocracy with swift execution,
Truth and democracy the future of our nation.


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