what are the important qualities of nagaland the poet mentions in the poem
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I have lived my life believing
Story-telling was my proud legacy.
The ones I inherited
From grandfather became
My primary treasure
And the ones I garnered
From other chroniclers
Added to the lore.
When my time came I told stories
As though they ran in my blood
Because each telling revitalized
My life-force
And each story reinforced
My racial reminiscence.
The stories told of the moment
When we broke into being
From the six stones and
How the first fathers founded
Our ancient villages and
Worshipped the forces of nature.
.
Warriors and were-tigers
Came alive through the tales
As did the various animals
Who were once our brothers
Until we invented human language
And began calling them savage.
Grandfather constantly warned
That forgetting the stories
Would be catastrophic:
We would lose our history,
Territory, and most certainly
Our intrinsic identity.
So I told stories
As my racial responsibility
To instil in the young
The art of perpetuating
Existential history and essential tradition
To be passed on to the next generation.
But now a new era has dawned.
Insidiously displacing the old.
My own grandsons dismiss
Our stories as ancient gibberish
From the dark ages, outmoded
In the present times and ask
Who needs rambling stories
When books will do just fine?
The rejection from my own
Has stemmed the flow
And the stories seem to regress
Into un-reachable recesses
Of a mind once vibrant with stories
Now reduced to un-imaginable stillness.
So when memory fails and words falter
I am overcome by a bestial craving
To wrench the thieving guts
Out of that Original Dog
And consign all my stories
To the script in his ancient entrails.
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