The Military Coup

Of such events is history rife; yet
another murderous tyrant deposed but
this time with civility in response to his
accession plans of dynastic dystopia to
advance his legacy of privation, disease
starvation, unemployment, the collapse
of all within a society that expresses its
success in caring for its population, in
gracing their existence with the comforts
of expectations met and beyond. The
military finally moves to withdraw their
caretaking function of a government led
by a feebly-aging manipulator himself
now the caricatured puppet of a schemer
he groomed in his own ineffable image.
While the people groaned in extremis
their leader assumed the status of an
entitled aristocrat to whom nothing
is denied. Remove him they will despite
respect for his deliverance-past freeing
them from foreign oppressors only to
become one himself. With the ingrained
temerity of the subjugated they plead for
his assent to relieve their country from his
destructive leadership. His hubris denies
their desire, leaving little option but to
set aside the deference, resorting to force.