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Blind Bullet

When bullets fly about you at random

No point sticking out your head sinless

Risk getting shot right at the centre

The bullet being neutral and unable too

To judge who to hit and who not to

Amidst a throng of the guilty and the guiltless

Hits the good and the bad all too alike

As it does the important and the insignificant

Regardless of any distinction plausible

If there were some to see the act of immolation

As do the viewers on a cinema screen put up

Worthwhile might the sacrifice be

Might a moral lesson be conveyed

Next morning your corpse might be found

Among thousands of others no less mangled

Cropped, shaven chin, even circumcised

Who would know you were not a Muslim

Victim of a massacre too indiscriminate?

Who would know you were not a Sikh who

With full knowledge of the consequences

Had walked into the face of a firing squad?

To prove good should triumph over evil

And God—no, not God; He was irrelevant. 

 

Zulfiqar Parvez is Head of English at TanzimulUmmah International Tahfiz School.

MD IMRAN HOSSAIN
MD IMRAN HOSSAINhttps://themetropolisnews.com/
Md. Imran Hossain, a certified SEO Fundamental, Google Analytics, and Google Ads Specialist from Bangladesh, has over five years of experience in WordPress website design, SEO, social media marketing, content creation, and YouTube SEO, with a YouTube channel with 20K subscribers.

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