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When I was born
I was a human.
Then my parents baptised me,
Now I belonged to a religion.
I was given a birth certificate,
I became a citizen.
I was sent to church,
I was moulded into my religion.
I was sent to school,
I was moulded into a citizen.
Now I had an identity.

Now I felt love and hate.
I decided to hate -
my nation's enemies, my religion's enemies.
I want to college,
I became a graduate,
I became a professional,
Now I was superior to 'others' -
Now I had the gold and the stick.
I loathed those unlike me.
Now I owned things -
Now there was 'mine' and 'theirs'.
Meanwhile, my ego grew, so did my hatred
and the conflicts grew.
I fell in love, got married, had kids.
I baptised my kids, made them followers.
I took birth certificates for them. made them citizens.
I sent them to church, moulded them too into followers.
I sent them to school, moulded them too into citizens.
They were now thinking like me -
They too had identites now.

Then suddenly my hair started turning grey,
my eyesight diminished.
My body weakened,
my skin loosened.
I was rich, I couldn't enjoy them anymore.
Now the conflicts were riotous.
I wanted my hatred to spread.
My body no longer strong,
my mind no longer sharp.
The hatred put in me by my identity grew into a wildfire.
My body couldn't itself anymore.
The crisis weakened my mind.
I was consumed in hate and weakened in bittereness.
One day, with all that bitterness
fresh like the first black coffee of the day,
I died.

Now I am human again.
Devoid of identity - Just like when I was a baby.
I am just a human now; A dead human.
I am in peace - yet again.