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Walk in my shoes if you care!
Feel faceless eyes sear your back with curious stares
And hear poison tipped and sharp edged words rain on you
As you rush to find shelter in a free country.
Nothing has really changed in the background;
The foreground reveals a change:
Of clothing and make up artists.
There's branded wear everywhere!
But behind the labels stare cold and listless eyes of the primitive.
Charles Darwin will always be bigger than Osama Bin Laden.
The oppressors has changed their cloaks, masked their intentions
In an unceasing rhetoric of the time of the hour
When the oranges in my own yard are sour,
It's time to raid neighbouring gardens,
Under the civilised banter of sharing of scarce resources.
But in our might let's keep out foreign invasion
Of that which we have bled to feed; Our own is OUR own
Raised through prudent measures of generations
That softened a cracked ground with the blood of the dispensable.
It is MY harvesting time now.
It does not matter if OUR ploughshares turn
Nameless skulls here and there.
It's OUR country now.
God Save The Queen!
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