The Motherland

I had a human heart once, but then, I was gripped by your desire for supremacy.

I grew, stretching my boundaries. I fought your wars, both internal and external.

My sixty years have made me leave behind the innocence I treasured.

You made me smart and scheming. Now I bully, I dominate, I rule.

I left the blissful ignorance of childhood and surrendered to the darkness of your desires.

I blame you for my degradation, for you garlanded me the day I was born, with your ideas of freedom and progress, with false commitment to peace, with thinly veiled self obsession.

I clung to those devilish beads with childish awe, they made me strong, and they made me powerful.

I lost my human trappings as you painted me with evil colours.

You gave me not, a chance to voice my dissent,
as you celebrated my loss of innocence, as freedom, as liberty.
As Democracy.