Poetry
Dinner With The Gunman
NINA CHANPREET KAUR
I invite you to my dinner table
Join me, will you?
I'd like to sit next to you.
I'd like to understand.
Put you on the operating table too
Pick at your brain
My sister a surgeon
I want to understand the wiring,
The thought, the impulse.
Time of death August 5th
What was your last thought before you fell into a pool of bleeding red?
And what did you eat that morning,
Your last meal or favorite food?
Sitting next to you at my dinner table
You hold me at gunpoint.
Let's eat
A feast always follows bloodshed.
Is it my turban
My beautiful shiny scarf
My long plaited hair
My smile?
A little boy wearing a gun
It was fun to play fight, kill spectacles in thin air.
A soldier, valiant and brave
You pick up a gun
PTSD
Russian roulette
I know you.
You wake up
look in the mirror to touch your skin.
I see you.
Hiding behind white
Fear
Power
Love.
Sweet Sunday morning
My call to prayer
When did you learn to betray me?
Congregation swells
Seekers, believers
Who taught you this?
Did you plant these seeds or did I?
I open my mouth
You pull the trigger again
Ripples explode
Splitting me in half
The victim is you.
* PTSD - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
August 11, 2012
Conversation about this article
1: Baldev Singh (Bradford, United Kingdom), August 11, 2012, 10:34 AM.
This awesome poem pretty much sums up the endless cycle of lost humans just existing with nothing to do but take out their anger of their miserable and useless lives on something unrelated to what they're angry about!
2: Narinder Singh (England), August 12, 2012, 2:34 AM.
This is awesome. Really touched my heart.