O Believer, do take a little pause
Answer me, what is your cause?
This mindless kill
What does it fulfill?
What makes you transcend all humane laws?
These strangers, living life with delight,
Mere pawns in your zihaadi fight.
An innocent lot
Caught in your plot
Martyred, as you turn Bali into a burial site!
Bali Bombings Kill at Least 25 in Tourist Spots: Get the story here
Thank you for the kind words about the poems :-)
ReplyDeleteI don't know if specifically it's a Hindu State which is at stake here...The poem would be equally valid in Iraq or any other place in the world where mindless killings are taking place in the name of religion, state, tribe and what not!
David has posted an apt rejoinder to this piece on a Ryze network. Am posting his piece here so that others can read the same.
ReplyDeleteThe suicide-bomber aspires
for startling show-stopping fires
in this lethal play
rehearsal? no way
the actor declaims & retires
It's quite an arresting display
commingling spite with dismay
the louder the blast
the larger the cast
the deeper the thrill of the fray
No qualms for a lethal career
no trembling -- channeling fear
assembling bombs
in secretive calms
jihad connoisseurship is queer
Each step toward the definite end
indellibly cuts -- poems penned
with terminal ink
are etched on the brink
of nothingness -- ready to send