Please Remove Your Weapons! Poem by Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi

The day before the actual action,
I was very excited with those visions,
Wearing the Kaki NCC uniform,
Holding a rifle on the platform,
Rested it on the shoulder and aimed the target,
This was placed 25 meters away at first,
Next morning before the sun woke up,
I was in my uniform and walked bold,
As the citizen of India, reached the field,
Met the fellow cadets, all in smile,
The rifles were given for shooting practice,
we could feel the momentum in every short.
shooting is fun when we hit the target,
Why do civilians need the weapons?


Gun culture of America is not unique,
As they are hunters not once, even today,
They hunted primarily Native Americans,
They liked to protect their properties,
They involved with revolutionary war,
They fought with themselves in civil war,
They flew to Europe to participate in world wars,
They helped the Vietnamese in Vietnam war,
They fought with Iran, keeping Sadam as a friend,
They fought with Sadam to rescue Kuwait,
They entered the innocent countries,
In search of a man and killed him,
Through the illegal strategies and means
They are the peace keepers and peace lovers,
They have the Great Spirit, can be seen in bars,
Having 230 million firearms, every adult can hold one,
They are no more hunters, very modern workers,
Many are the high rise dwellers,
Who are they afraid of and who threaten them,
When all their enemies are annihilated,
When the citizen is afraid of his own brothers,
No wonder people become stressed out,
Pointing the gun at the children and the weak,
As they have the access to this weapon,
Other weapons of love and affection are gone,
Let them not be happy playing with triggers.
Let them not trigger violence across the water.