Point blank!

[LewisJian]

Very poignantly written poem.

It was like a scope to a gun. Point blank!

A reader made the comment in the above after reading one of my poems. I am not sure of its meaning. Care to shed some light,?

 

[Rover_KE]

Please provide a link to the poem.

 

[LewisJian]

Thanks, Rover. The poem is very short, so I just post it in the following:

If There's a Way

If it's likely
to drown worry
in whisky
I'd have drowned it
a thousand years ago
If there's a way
to assassinate sorrow
I won't have to
wait until tomorrow
to murder it

 

[LewisJian]

Interesting fact about Point-Blank​

The origin of this word goes back to French archery terminology in the Late Middle Ages. Back then, archery targets were usually white. Point was used as a verb and blank (taken from the French word for white, 'blanc') meant 'pointing at the target'.

I just googled point blank on the Internet and ran across the explanation in the above.