I
O’ Peshawar
Your chest has been drilled with crater,
Your ears bleed with resonating boom
and moaning
Your eyes weep with the weeping people
Who search for their loved ones amid chaos
You have been beaten and bruised
With the flesh and blood of innocent victims
The victims: who reduce to smithereens and
become numbers 10, 30, 52
II
9th October 2009
The world is abuzz with
President Obama’s winning a Noble Peace Prize
While my beloved city chars with another bomb
The media hails Obama
While my beloved city crawls towards death inch by inch
III
Mullahs say we are fighting
Someone else’s war
Politicians in Islamabad say
We are fighting our own war
Amid the cacophony of statements
Pukhtoons are left to wriggle and die
IV
What happened to my land?
The land know as the city of flowers
What happened to the land of Rahman Baba and Sain Ahmad Ali?
Who are the ones who kill without remorse?
Are they Muslims?
Are they even humans?
Excellent…the pain of what is going on in the city of flowers may not be put in more appropriate words.
By: Manzoor Ali on October 10, 2009
at 11:54 am
The pain is unexplainable
By: Ayesha on October 11, 2009
at 9:55 pm
They are neither Muslim nor human
By: Yasser on October 10, 2009
at 1:49 pm
I know! We can’t even call the animals because I believe even they have some sense of not harming their fellow animals.
By: Ayesha on October 11, 2009
at 9:56 pm
Hmmmm – That was touchy N heart breakin hmmm – AllAh mercy.
By: Mishall on October 11, 2009
at 12:16 am
Mercy is all we are begging for!
By: Ayesha on October 11, 2009
at 9:56 pm
A good post!
I agree with Yasser,hard to call them humans after that.
By: Alta on October 11, 2009
at 2:13 pm
Devil (or the devil incarnate) is the best term for them.
By: Ayesha on October 11, 2009
at 9:57 pm
It’s painful to see silently and lament at the bleeding city of ours….home town our beloved one….it’s blood all around and it’s bleeding like everything……
They are jerks, damn soul less people with frozen hearts….
By: captureuniverse on October 12, 2009
at 4:51 am
I just wonder if the bomber is 12-19 years old. How could he believe that he’s going for a worthy cause by killing the innocent people?
They are better then any Manchurian candidate
By: Ayesha on October 12, 2009
at 7:43 am
Brain washing to the extent that they just cant feel or understand anything…..
dead emotions and relations….
By: captureuniverse on October 12, 2009
at 8:49 am
Its touchy; one can feel the pain oozing out of these lines, the pain of every sane Pakistani, of every Pukhtoon and of every petal of the charred flowers of our florid land.
By: Aadil on October 12, 2009
at 6:00 am
Peshawar (and NWFP) has suffered just too much post 2004. People ain’t feel safe anymore going out!
By: Ayesha on October 12, 2009
at 7:45 am
I dont think we can ever understand how or what happens that pushes them to these extremes.
By: Alta on October 12, 2009
at 5:10 pm
Well their brains are fed that they are going to do a great job … perhaps
By: Ayesha on October 13, 2009
at 5:55 am
Hard times right now but things will change for the better.
By: Alta on October 14, 2009
at 8:51 pm
Perhaps
By: Ayesha on October 22, 2009
at 3:03 pm
JazakAllah for this wonderful piece.
My hsuband told me while I was outside and I started crying when I heard about the altest bomb…
Allah hamari maddad kare aur jo log yeh kar rahay hain, unko hidayat de, aur agar hidayat nahin lete to Allah unhe iski sazaa de:(
it hurts so badly…
Someone said, Lahore, Karachi and islamabad are alsoa aprt of Pakistan, but yeah, my peshawar is my home, it hurts in my heart and makes me so depressed, sometimes I wish i wsnt here to witness it, gone with one of those bombs..:(
By: Alhamdolillah on October 15, 2009
at 7:25 am
It is very unfortunate and I am speechless!
By: Ayesha on October 22, 2009
at 3:11 pm
my mind is simply not able to work who is really behind this, Muslim cannot do this
By: Yasser on October 28, 2009
at 4:33 pm
My mind isn’t working either!
By: Ayesha on October 29, 2009
at 10:23 am
think deep…….
if muslims can’t do this then who is mastermind? if muslim can’t cut the head of another muslim then wo has the courage? who is the one wants to bring down muslims? who is the one wants to vanish islam? who is doing research on quran and its meaning?
who has found facts and figures?
Think?????????????
By: captureuniverse on October 30, 2009
at 6:33 am
Yasser , Muslims HAVE done this.The point is , who is pulling their strings.
By: Natasha on October 29, 2009
at 9:28 am
I quite agree with you!
By: Ayesha on October 29, 2009
at 10:23 am
not exactly …
By: usman on October 29, 2009
at 2:16 pm
nice depction of da current situation….
By: Salman Asghar on October 29, 2009
at 10:57 am
I hope not to write such gory poems again
By: Ayesha on October 31, 2009
at 5:09 pm