The Kabul Wedding Tragedy Poem by Daya Nandan

It was an event under the glimmer of the starlight,
An Afghanistan wedding on a saturday night,
Hundreds of Afghan children and adults celebrated out loud,
So many singing and dancing in a clapping crowd,

But hidden in the crowd was a demon in human form,
Waiting to change the calm scenery into a thunder storm,
In a flash, he detonated his explosives-filled vest,
63 people dead and 182 wounded in the devastating blast,

People were screaming and crying for their loved ones,
Among the dead innocent mothers, fathers and sons,
Blood-stained bodies along with pieces of human flesh,
Torn clothes, sandals and bottles of mineral water in a mesh,

Bodies strewn across amid overturned chairs and tables in the hall,
Blood, debris and cracks upon each wedding wall
The groom lost his brother, both lost relatives and friends,
The bride and the groom were left in tears without ends,

Such a heinous and inhumane attack is a crime against humanity,
Caused by twisted minds plagued by evil and insanity,
Using false narratives of religion as their justification,
Recruiting idiots to commit crimes within their nation,

Those shameless power hungry demons are the ultimate disgrace,
Idiots that bring such shame to the human race,
Taking the lives of innocents without a single care,
The world would be better off if such trash was not there.