Save Kabul Poem by Lalithashree Ganesh

Tears and blood, mixed.

Clueless, shell-shocked, they move...
toward nothingness.

Toward a frail ray of hope...

nobody thought much
about the Kabuliwallah's heart.

nobody knew what he lost,
for no fault of his own.

There is no justice,
in a world controlled by fools.
only a fight exists,
ignited by emotion, loss, death

...brewing like a storm
and striking like frightening lightening!
A zil-zilla in the skies, carried to the earth,
a dance of destruction without a cause,
a pain so numb to feel anymore.

The questions have dried up
the tears have lost their salt.
The hearts have stopped smiling
the words and promises, they are all empty.

The war is a weed we do not need.
May the wars die
and end the fights fought without a thought.

Tell me, why do you call for martyrs
to lay down their lives,
to water their blood
to nourish your selfish dreams.

Why spill tears and tear apart the beating heart
into peril,
for a motive without love?

We don't need no war.
We don't need no hate.
We don't need no bullets and no bombs.

All we need is love.
All we need is brotherhood.
All we need is compassion,
and a heart to empathize
and understand.

O people of the world!
Let our voices be heard, firm and clear.
Let our voices be strong enough, gentle enough,
to vacuum clean the black from their hearts.
Let us not endure
the wrong any more.

The time is short.
Let us help each other,
before the world becomes a heartless pile
of rubble.
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