Charlie Hebdo; Murder Most Foul Poem by Dr. Yogesh Sharma

Master artist, drawing cartoons,
Risky resistance for liberty of ideas,
For the highest freedom of expression.
Fatwaas, death threats, intimidation,
On hit list, dwelling fired, bombed;
Failed to deter their art and vision.
Wonderful souls, adept art of comedy;
Loved a laugh on themselves,
Abhorred extremism, violence and terror.
In-habituated in safest democratic spaces,
Unmindful of their own security and safety;
Wished a world, free, safe and secure.
Charlie Hebdo will carry on to its voice,
For freedom, free and fear less pen,
Unmindful and un-sacred of death at their doors.
Only souls blessed, can be a cartoonist;
But any un-civilized, insane, barbaric;
Can be a terrorist and slaughterer.
Wrong is the faith, not the men;
Innocents, taught in madarsas and mosques;
Indoctrinated as murderers most foul.


N.B: This poem is a tribute to the brave and bold journalist and cartoonist of French magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo' who were massacred by Islamic terrorists in Paris and condom the barbaric massacre of cartoonists.