Death Threat

He has a death threat
(confessed an old one)
from a Mujahid youth
(his own son)
trigger-happy
and armed with a gun
who swore one day
to shoot him down
not only because he was old
and therefore of no use
to him or anyone,
and for his views
on the cult of the gun-
(so repugnant to the son),
but more on account
of the fair compensation
which violent death nowadays
brings to the next of kin.