FOR REGGIE NUNNERY

by Ifti Nasim

 

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How many memorials
I have to erect in the city?
How many times I have to stand
In the circle to pray
For the fallen heroes?
How many times I have to stop
Having my dinner during the evening news?
My God where are you?
Now I need you the most.
My heart is on fire and
The feathers of my guardian angel are burning.
Look around us.
People with no hope
Walking like zombie
Don't erect a memorial or put flowers
Where I was gunned down. Throw all the guns and drugs in a pyre
And give me hope for tomorrow.

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Reggie Nunnery, a young man, was gunned down in a gang cross fire in Chicago. Reggie was an innocent by stander. Ifti Nasim is a poet whose book Narman was the first queer book published in Pakistan. Reach him via info@huriyahmag.com

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