We will have to save

all those books

which presented genocide as crime,

blood as struggle,

spears as murderers,

and forests as colonies.

The contents of the upcoming books

will be altered very meticulously,

in the stories of which,

axes and the branches of trees

will be best friends,

in the stories of which,

the loot of the mountains

will be termed as development,

and all the crusaders of

anti-colonialism in these mountains

will be declared

the enemies of civilization.

The upcoming books will portray

genocide as a service to humanity,

and blood as a negligible cost

for this great service.

Civilizations will be

a mere reflection

of a certain culture,

slaves will be called divine beings,

and uniform will become

the Nation.

In those books,

ancient ages of hunger

and deprivation

will become golden,

and the promise to bring back

this golden age

will become the sole religion.

The promise will be fulfilled by

some talented youngsters

employed to safeguard the ‘divinity’,

who will declare themselves

the Messiah of peace,

just after burning

the colonies of innocents.

In the upcoming books

the mid cross roads of

some tormented cities

will witness love, tolerance,

compassion and harmony

bent helplessly

before the gun of hatred

and beg

for mercy and life.

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