An Empty Heart is a Loaded Gun #peshawar

Bobby Pawar, Director, Chief Creative Officer – South Asia, Publicis Worldwide, shaken by the Peshawar attack on schoolchildren, wrote a touching poem. As he says, “The Peshawar attack shook me to my core. When my tears dried some words flowed”

Mumbai | December 19, 2014

Bobby Pawar

In the cold mountains, hope comes to die.

Here sleep the children to hate's lullaby.

Wisdom wears a beard on the chin of lies.

Says God will give you virgins if you sacrifice.

Armed with a prayer to a dark sun.

An empty heart is a loaded gun.

Mothers bury their sons before they are dead.

Veiled wails fall silent as a terrorist is bred.

Fathers sit in councils and boast to the rest.

'Doesn't my boy look fine in a suicide bomber's vest?'

He's coming down the mountain, you better run.

An empty heart is a loaded gun.

Down in the foothills a school bell tolls.

And innocent souls answer the rolls.

There before the first book is opened and read,

the pages are stained by a bullet to the head.

A fire cares not about what it does burn.

An empty heart is a loaded gun.

Facebook is outraged. Twitter is ablaze.

Hate fills up, when we empty our rage.

But a knife can't heal a wound that it cruelly makes.

While love is a baker, and peace the bread it bakes.

Keep these words close, my daughter and son.

An empty heart is a loaded gun.

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