Having concluded the prayer meeting
he would take a stroll
not at his customary pace
but one meant for contemplating
over the events of the past weeks
The air was to be thick with cheer
yet an assured misery (unmissable)
thinning the celebrations
of becoming the sovereign
The nation newly freed
from the clutches of a regime
that could put most tyrants to shame,
surely a matter of jubilant celebration
yet the pangs of cutting the mother
into pieces
leaving countless
homeless in their homes
The world looking at the babysteps
the new Republic were to take
with the bags of partition
and violence encumbering
Years of nonviolence
making a sad trajectory
Decisions in good faith
leaving trails of pain
To the world, a phenomenon
too incredible to have walked the earth
Yet a source of assured anger
to his closest disciples
And,
the missing laureate of peace
would not make it to Oslo ever
two days too short
as was cut his life
by three bullets fired
in peace-time.
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