" Death by Drone", an ASEAN 500 cartoon with Poem by Notrumi

CARTOON & POEM

by Notrumi
Bukit Damansara - MALAYSIA
Monday, 24th August 2015

( Death by Drone )

.

A Signature Strike

There was once a boy called Abu,

He lived in a village near

Peshawar, Mosul or Kabul,

He could have been me,

He could have been you,

He could have been anyone

You might meet in school,

Anyways, one day

He borrowed a cellphone

*ring ring*ring ring*

Went the ringing tone,

*ring ring*ring ring*

Isn’t anybody home?

*Target Acquired*

Fire! Fire!

And now on a rocky slope

Rests his bones,

Never more to call home,

Obliterated through no fault of his own,

Obliterated because of

Someone else’s phone,

Remembered in words

Carved on his gravestone,

"ABU

Made Prone,

Eternally,

By Drone."

-Notrumi (Taufiq bin Abdul Khalid)