you pay your college fees
\nyou fall in love
\nyou plan the babies
\nand save for the future<\/p>\n
\nyou book next years holiday
\nand give up beer
\nand
\nwhen life is planned
\nand the future looked after
\nyou are running five minutes
\ntoo late for work
\nyou get in the wrong train
\nat the wrong station
\nin the wrong compartment
\nnear the wrong man
\nnext to the bomb
\nyou look back
\nand suddenly
\nyou are dead
\nand there you meet
\nthousands of babies
\nand mothers
\nand fathers and brothers and sisters
\nlovers and friends
\nhundreds of thousands
\nof Iraqis<\/p>\n
of Indians
\nof londoners
\nof africans
\nof americans
\nof asians
\nof indonesians
\nall dead
\nfrozen in time
\nhuman bodies
\ncaught in the wrong place
\nat the wrong time
\nat the wrong moment
\nin the wrong country
\nin the wrong politics
\njust for a while
\nplease don’t talk to me
\nabout destiny, of astrology
\nof Karma
\nor of politics or right or wrong
\nor of morality or sects or isms
\nfor a while,
\nlet me be angry, in anguish
\nlet me grieve
\nlet me believe there was no reason
\nlet me not relieve my guilt<\/p>\n
in political discussion<\/p>\n
for there will be time that
\nwhen we will find reason
\nwhen we will find politics
\nand we will relieve ourselves of the burden of guilt
\neach one of us, all of us
\ntill the next bomb.
\n\ufffd Shekhar Kapur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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