DEATH AGAINST DEATH

When they kill'd one, deploy'd we two.
Yet they kill'd two, and twenty we deploy'd.
Then twenty slaughter'd, position'd we two hundred...
The numbers thus went on -
The numbers thus go on -
Unchallenged, undeterred, unabated;
Yet fed, nourish'd, revolved...

All through horrors, terrors, ruination;
Through cruelty, violence, depredation;
On mutilated bodies and bloodbaths;
In attacks, defences, and counter wraths;
That we employ death for killings,
That we employ death against killings;
And the numbers are rising -
From thousands to millions,
From millions to billions...
And the whole world becomes
An altogether ultimate war zone
Fraught with combats, crusades, war fares
And 'Butchers-all-butcher'd-all' competition...

Those who kill are the same humans,
Those who're kill'd are the same humans -
All for different causes,
All by different designs...
On the soil all our feet,
Time bombs, landmines beneath
And over, escalating spraying of bullets
And we are caught - all in-between !!!

                              --- N P Samal