Motherland

in the national game of ninepins the soldiers are meant to fall
but technology knocks the civilians dead and no one counts the haul
while the media convenes complacency to keep the mob in thrall
we defend a deafened democracy where death is free to roam
and there's no one left in the homeland with the right to call it home
save a few remaining Indians who are watching out for drones
we humans began in Africa with weapons long buried in sand
then someone thought of guns and bombs and migration got out of hand
now we're lost transported Africans in search of our Motherland.