Pilot Poem by Aparna Chatterjee

As a pilot,
He was
Trained
To keep
Himself
And his
Passengers
Safe.

But as a husband,
He failed to keep
His wife and children
Safe.

With him, his
Wife felt so
Unsafe, she
Wanted to
Separate from
Him, but he
Bludgeoned
Her to death,
Making his
Children
Lose their
Mother,
And live their
Life with an
Imprisoned
Father.



(I wrote this after reading the news of a domestic homicide wherein a pilot killed his wife.)