Why ? I wonder. . .

I wonder,

I ponder,

I question myself.

Why does man kill man,

Destroying a creation of God?

A pull of a trigger,

Takes away, a life.

That life, which would have meant,

The whole world to another.

Children are orphaned,

Wives widowed,

Mothers are left wailing,

A countless lives, shattered.

Trapped amidst the fury,

Of the ‘Husseins’ & the ‘Bushes’,

Innocent and helpless,

Are the real victims.

Racial killings,

To add salt to wound,

Continues back home,

In the ‘Valley of Fear’,

What is the outcome,

Of such merciless killings?

Peace is so far-fetched,

If that’s what is wanted.

- Nandita Pai -

30/03/03