Monday, November 8, 2010

The Bomber Man

-thoughts of a suicide bomber before exploding.




My chest is chained and is locked,
I am wearing a jacket which I can’t take off,
I see kids playing in the ground,
I see people traveling in the train,
Please, I will result in huge sounds,
Pull down that chain.

I was a poor man whole my life,
But now I will be rich, or at least my wife,
I have been hired in an army, I am a soldier,
I am huge now, with responsibility on my shoulder,
My first stint is now, I know its my last too,
No I am not afraid, its because I know what I am upto,

I don’t want to do this, I know its not right,
But some rules say “right side is the wrong side”,
So, we choose left to avoid collision,
To my right is collision, to my left is explosion.
Let it be, if you can close your eyes,
I can act being wise.

No one knows about my locked jacket,
No one knows I have trigger in my pocket,
I have just kissed my son goodbye,
Who kept holding my finger, as if giving it a try,
Perhaps with money truth will not stay longer,
Perhaps my son will never know his father was a suicide bomber,
What do I do, I am unable to defend the attacker,
I am nothing, just a “lighter holding cracker”

15 comments:

meverck said...

very innovative thiugh but i hav doubts on the basic core of the poem , the whole concept of suicide bombing is , the person is prepared for the collision giving him little knwledge, he cannot choose between wrong and right, true n untrue, he has no doubts before pulling the trigger , ur bomber man can be a character in a yash raj film or karan johar's but according to me won't exist in the real world

meverck said...

n yes i forgot the analogy with the game is awee 'wait for it'someee

Sesquipedalinismic said...

i would rather invite the thought ..... may be humanity actually is solution everywhere..... i don't know what "maverick" said is right or right i am no one to judge ...... but the psych can't be predicted ..... y mention movies? u never experienced any thing humane? yes one consequence of this innovation may be that people start taking you as "jihad suporter"(lol).... but seriously there are no. of people who do this not all of them can be 100% evil....that is what (according to me) needs to be nourished in quest of findin solutions ...... hope is what can be provided ... enough to take ones own stand ...the one they eally want ..." dum spiro spero"

rAHUL JOshi said...

@pallav: you took it to a different level,or may be i cudn explain,he(the bomber man) says that people are judgin him as wrong doer,(let it be, if you can close your eyes)so he saying all this left right concepts (i can act being wise)!!
and please karan johar,yash raj?main kahin se bhi sharukh jaisi batien karta hun?no nono
anyways i enjoyed replying to your coment,kip it up

rAHUL JOshi said...

@sumit:jihad suporter?...patanahi yeh hai kya!
and yess humanity might be the solution to all,but we need humans for that,these daz ive ben thinkin a lot over these issues,just puttin some energies to it!!!!

Arpita Mishra said...

wow yar, a totally different light on what we would normally just cast as ''wrong''. When did the media, or anyone else, bother to get to the core of it! Who knows, maybe ur poem reflects the truth of life of many suicide bombers!

rAHUL JOshi said...

@arpita: thanx,wanto write kaaafi khuch on your coment,but thn it wud become another blog! actualy every wrong is right,just need an eye for it!.....was i talkin about eyes again?

meverck said...

@rahul tht was cheesy,well wat i meant to say was a bomber can have no second thots abut such things ,if he has he wud not do it,ther's only one righteus path for him thts his deed, which wud take him to heaven , n if he thinks so he has to be a movie character n sorry for the yash raj.......n everything got a bit carried away

Sesquipedalinismic said...

since when all the people in this world became 100 % focused man? that actually is movie stuff.....may be we don't pry the opposite side of our vision which is "inside"....that is where the thought process of every bomber man is,which can be anything this is one aspect..... n thoughts do flicker at times object is everything and it vanishes of the surface ......just like that ........ having singularity in thoughts is unattainable as far as i've experienced in y life.

@rahul------i know m getting off but look closely it has all to do with what u've written ...........n that's 1 helluva piece ....amazing

Sesquipedalinismic said...

n jihad supporter ..........coz things are percieved that way if something is bad n u dare find good in dat...........busted!!!! utoo share d filth..........it's not me i wrote it to mock established which as u n me lots f people dont but dont do n ething

rAHUL JOshi said...

@sumit: easy dude,its k, we can only try to shake people cnt throw thm off their beds : kep writting is what i wud say,and pray humanity awakens!
@pallav: i know that was cheesy!

lily said...

even i dont agree with pallav... suicide bombers are also human beings...!! but they choose the wrong, in order to make their loved ones life right...!! great thought joshi...!! keep it up.. :)

Sesquipedalinismic said...

i don't disagree with Pallav . In fact his' are the comments most justified in alleged "real" world. But going by norms can't give new or better......@pallav i luv ur comments man......makes one think of all d faces of cases....

rAHUL JOshi said...

a proud writer I am, people broke it into debate.good job!

Sesquipedalinismic said...

yess jitne join karein utna badhia