An Alternate View

This letter has been doing the rounds. Someone posted that here in one of the interacts as well. Now that it looks like afghanistan is not going to be bombed back to the stone age after all and the afghanis may receive financial & political help, all of which i hope come to pass, this article is a bit out of date.

Kabul

Laughter is not heard here
there is a silence over Kabul
One still hears the prayer call yet
there is a silence over Kabul
The powers that be are shooting again
there is a silence over Kabul
No Pushto, Tajik or Uzbek songs
there is a silence over Kabul
Gunfire mixes with Daari in the bazaar
there is a silence over Kabul
The Soviets are long gone but still
there is a silence over Kabul
The Pul-i-Churkhi prison all over again
there is a silence over Kabul
Minds have been imprisoned too long
there is a silence over Kabul
Hate speaks in many languages in the streets
there is a silence over Kabul
Amongst the bombs and the battle sounds
there is a silence over Kabul
Peace still eludes Afghanistan as
there is a silence over Kabul
When will the children see an end to this war?
There is a silence over Kabul.

By

Ras Siddiqui