Extra Blog Post: Sadiq

The poem Sadiq begins with a quote that explains how patience is of utmost importance to an archer because once the arrow leaves the bow, it does not come back. I find this to be an interesting beginning, because the poem is about how it should break a soldier's heart to kill. I think that he begins with that quote because using a bow and arrow is very much like using a gun. The person behind the bow or behind the trigger must really think hard about whether they want to use it or not, and that is something that is rarely done in war. In war, killing is usually a spur of the moment, quick decision, and there is not much thought that really goes into it in that very moment.

The first thing I noticed in this poem is that in the second line, he uses the word "nightmare" as a verb, which it is not. I think this is interesting, because the subject of the poem - killing - is something that can turn a person's world upside down and change everything, and I think that the use of this word in a different form exemplifies this change and confusion.

I feel that he takes every excuse or justification that people use for killing, and turns it on those people, telling them that no matter what it is they are going to say, it is not an excuse to feel good about killing. It doesn't matter if it gave you an adrenaline rush, or if you did it for your god, or if you did it for revenge, it should never feel good to kill another person.

This poem is also all one sentence. I think that he made it this way because of the way that one comes to a decision about killing, or the way the act of killing happens. When the time comes, it all happens quickly, and everything going on kind of fades into one another. The thought process of killing someone, no matter how much you have thought about it before the act, completely changes when it is actually being done, and there is little time for reflection or to really think about what you are about to do, and he makes the poem flow in that way as well.