The Same Opponent Poem by Naveed Akram

It is the same opponent, the one who struggles
In dying or killing, filling the eyes with red blood;
The author of death is him, the one objecting
To survivors and the honest gentry, the only ones.

Let the killer be a singer of the worst crimes,
Economical in offering the swimming pool
That must be crossed in record time,
So that arts of creative spirit are enlivened.

The advertisement is the chastisement,
We see the reticules and the targets forever,
Opening the dry ears and the dry mouth,
Feeding the stomach with red blood.