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Oh! My
Brother!
I didn’t know where I was!
When I got up!! To see the rambles around!!
No campsite in near vision!
No friends around! No army around!
Just realized that I was lost to ‘enemies’!
Footsteps reached me! Soothing hands touched me!
Touched my wounds! Cleaned my body!
“Friend! Here is your food!
Eat well! And fresh up!! And relax!!”
Came the voice from this unknown friend!!
Ate all I could! Drank all I wanted!!
So relaxing! So rejuvenating!!
Slowly looked into the face!
That bought my life back! That saved me from death!
“Who are Thee? Do I know you?” I asked!
“Friend! I am your “enemy”! the enemy!
“All my family killed by you! Young kids!
Old parents! Brothers and family!
All got Killed in your shootings!”
Wondered I to the fullest! Shivered my body!
How could I have done this? Why did I do this?
To this noble man? To this pious soul?
Thought a while! Thought again!!
Couldn’t see the man’s face again!
Slowly gained strength to rise my head!
‘Why didn’t you kill me? That Thee know I killed
Your family! That Thee have a right to kill me?”
To my shock the man said!
“Oh Brother! Suffered I the pain!
That is thrown on me when a family is lost!
How can I throw your family in to the same pain?
Knowingly! That I came through!
Go home brother! Never I hate you!
Just take this with you! Never cause pain to others!
Even to the enemies that pained you!
Go home brother!”
Walked away the stranger into mountains!
(c)
Phani Gargey
San Diego, USA
September 23, 2000 |
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