THE WAILS OF THE DEAD

THE WAILS OF THE DEAD

Why
must it be so
that we have to
kill people
so that
we may live

Who
gets killed
was it the lives of innocents
someone's father, someone's mother
someone's friend, someone's love
that were lost in Sept.11 holocaust

or
is it the lives of
innocents, facing reprisals
in cold, barren, starving land
of Afghanistan
whose only crime is, if that be
so
was suffering
under brutal Talibaan
And pray
who is Talibaan
the Frankenstein monster
created in the first place
by these very people
now out to erase
it's existence

The War against Terror
as they call
will never be complete
till
each and everyone
does search his/her soul

Must we kill people
to save few more
must we make war
to prevent blood and gore

must we sell arms
to buy some peace
must oh! why must we
live in contradictions and not
see
that God had sent us
to live , not to die
died we have, but
you must live
life, is a gift not to be taken
but to give

If you listen to us
we would live, although dead
if not, the world would resound
with the wails of the dead! !

~ Mukul Saxena ~

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