My Homeland

(Carmel Fedrick Malngiang)

Hynñiewtrep – The name of my homeland,
Located somewhere on earth.
Famous
For its beauty, rain songs and war
Rich in culture and
Unique in history.

The aroma of love pervades the air,
The birds sing a lullaby
Melody of happiness is heard –
On this unique land.
Rare to find on earth
Happy to travel on it.

This is the land where –
Men protect the land and
Women preserves the culture.

My homeland is a home of the brave,
Who loves to go for war!
To fight
For freedom, justice and rights,
For victory is of the Nation.

Since ancient
We live freely, we rule freely
Sovereignty is ours!
We sow, we reap and we eat
Upon this unique land.

Woefully,
In the recent past decades
Our freedom, rights and sovereignty were forcefully seized by
The white men from the far off west,
Some of ’em give us light
And some tortured us.

The white men gone
The black men from our nearest border,
With sugar coated words they came
To fool our leaders,
But they failed!

Those black men
Started showing their power,
They invade our land along with arms!
Forcefully
They made our leaders signed the paper
With a gun pointing on their head.
Again we’re under colonial rule!

Thousands of innocent souls
of my brethren were murdered!
By the hand of these colonial rulers,
I see no fair judgment on that,
Seems like justice’s dead!

My homeland–
Most of the corrupt politicians
who’s been controlled by those colonial rulers
They messed up your land
and defame your name
For the sake of their own benefit.

Oh my homeland!
I’ve cried and crying
When I open the book of your history.
But my heart never feel hopeless
’cause you never born a coward.
Though
There’s some black sheeps and traitors,
Who sell their land for pieces of coins.

We have been conquered by the foreigners,
Never got treated like citizens;
Our justice, freedom and rights were denied.
How come those colonial rulers claimed that we’re free?
Are they not ashamed of their crimes and cruelty?

There’ll be no peace in you
As long as we’re reigned by the foreigners;
Oh my beloved homeland,
You are drenched by the blood and tears of the patriots!

Oh! my fellow Hynñiewtrep brethren,
Wake up from your dreams!
Don’t get fooled by those greedy colonial rulers
To say that we’re free
Fight for your right by hook or by crook,
For pain is transient and victory is for good.

My homeland,
You have men who respect women,
You have lovers
You have liars who lied about you;
You have singers who sing for you,
You have citizens who cried for you,
You had all you deserve except sovereignty.

My homeland
I’ll lay my life for you,
I wish peace and harmony,
In this very land;
I pray that you’ll last as long as the world lasts
I hope someday you’ll get back your stolen peace
Long live my homeland.