Cursed and admired in equal measure
he was a butterfly whose fluttering wings
changed the course of history not as he
would have wished but through a heralded
series of measures to bring prosperity to a
nation cemented into a mould of humanity
that nature failed to endorse. Enthusiasm
to release his people from poverty and the
malaise of non-production he unwittingly
released the inexorability of defiance where
those held in state bondage to a failed ideal
knew flight to freedom was at last possible.
His imagined flight toward unleashing a vast
populace from stultifying rigidity failed
to account for human nature just as the
implementation of the locked-in ideology
he sought to humanize did. In the final analysis
a traitor to his tyranny-loving people who
regarded him with revulsion, denying his intent
reviling the result, preferring to remain in the
bonds of servitude to a new tyrant intent
on reinstalling vestiges of a lost power.
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