Killed and Died

Boom! went the gun,
the dreadful sound everyone heard.
Down went the man,
to his rescue they ran.
The next day on news
people sat down to exchange views.
They said the gunman had a beard.
'Probably a Muslim,' they sneered.
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Earth trembles and windows shatter.
Blood splashes across the walls
a sign, some bomb had gone off.
Before the dead were laid to rest,
speculations made their way.
As people wondered, who had spread such terror ?
The world shouts, "a Muslim, without an error."
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The next day graffiti covers city walls,
“Kill all Muslims,” seems to be the general call.
Amidst all this frenzy of revenge,
they forget to ask why
in such a manner he chose to die?
They never do bother to find the cause
as this is how the story of a suicide bomber goes.

He wasn't a fanatic,
a terrorist or mentally erratic.
and whatever they declared him to be,
nothing was wrong with his religious zeal.
Like a believer of any religion,
he never imagined killing a fellow being.
It just so happened that he was extremely saddened
when uniformed men marched into his house
and from a good-night sleep his family was aroused.
One by one, the people he loved were shot
with the simple justification that it was freedom they sought.
A terrible mistake, it was later revealed
and forever the case was sealed.

For everyone, it was just another story
but he had hid in a corner
and witnesssed all that horror.
Left in this world all alone,
he tried to figure out what had gone wrong.
That’s when he made the decision.
Determined not to let the ending be so unfair,
He wouldn't forgive and forget what he saw.

He had never planned to die this way
when as a suicide bomber in the street he lay.
Hoping to reunite with his family, his spirit took off.
Nothing had remained in this world to live for.
He knew, killing was never right
but he had to put up one last fight.

Sadly, they don't understand
that it's not right to occupy another land.
There’s no denying that they are the victims
but they’re not the only ones.
Considering themselves developed and civilized,
they say, it’s Muslims who kill who die.
Ironically, they do the same in disguise of their lies.