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Garden of fire

By Viewpoint • 2013-03-14 • 1 min read

In light of recent mob violence against Christian community in Lahore, with valuable input from Anzar bhai.

Question

For I seek a name

Whom to blame

While They burn ...

The Mob

Sadistic, hedonist, seeking pleasure in violence?

The Preacher

Clamouring, shouting, selling madness?

The land shark

Cunning, waiting, wishing the Christians to flee?

Or the state

Rooting deep, blood-sapping innocents?

Who should answer

He who listens

Then who better

God is my decision

And so

Began the search

*match*

Bullah said

'God lives Inside'

*gasoline*

So I listened, inside

A cacophony of silence

*flame*

In Badami Bagh

A garden, but of fire

There I found God

Burning, a slow amber death

Ayyaz Mallick is a first year graduate student at York University Canada. His concentration is in urban politics and development studies.