
Every time the bomb goes off
I feel being blown into smithereens
Look! A piece of my charred flesh sizzling on the charcoal road
Brother, be careful, you’ve stepped on a brownish mass
That’s slowly palpitating counting its last beats
That used to be a heart once
Full of life and zest
There you rescue worker
Collect my severed leg and keep the shoe for
My dear ones to recognize
The fingers flew everywhere… some are burnt and crushed
Some rotting in the drain close by;
Some are picked up by the investigators
Take a close look that’s NOT how suicide bombers hellish fingers would look like
Clutching the necklace, that had to be bought after a brief bargain
The melted eyes mixed with dirt, blood and smoke
Used to weave dreams are blind
I see, still, I can see
Myself in pieces, scattered all over
The good thing, however, is that now there is no pain




















That is a heart-wrenchingly powerful poem drenched in pain!
The trueness of the emotion makes it one of your best poems that I’ve come across!
Bless you!
By: Aadil on October 29, 2009
at 3:59 am
I was quite depressed yesterday. I still am but the resilience is taking over me now…
By: Ayesha on October 29, 2009
at 10:29 am
Ayesha…as i said I am speechless….and now i feel I couldn’t say a word about….
the expression you put in your lines is truly the voice of our heart, everyone’s heart….
Allah may bless us All…we are desperatly looking for his mercy upon us…
By: captureuniverse on October 29, 2009
at 4:04 am
When will He have His mercy? I’m waiting too.
By: Ayesha on October 29, 2009
at 10:30 am
Well Ayesha.. keeping in view the current situation around the world, we are surely in a state of war and passing through the phase which was predicted years back….
history is about to come true…Allah’s signs of dooms day are coming near day by day…. we are moving towards a big Ghazwa….
the only thing is we need to realize…….
By: captureuniverse on October 29, 2009
at 10:59 am
Heart-wrenching.
By: Natasha on October 29, 2009
at 9:26 am
Indeed!
By: Ayesha on October 29, 2009
at 10:31 am
By: Haris Gulzar on October 29, 2009
at 11:29 am
@ captureuniverse
GHAZWA is not the right word to use …
ayesha, that’s a great effort
By: usman on October 29, 2009
at 2:12 pm
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By: captureuniverse on October 30, 2009
at 6:25 am
Thanks for appreciation!
By: Ayesha on October 31, 2009
at 5:10 pm
Very gory! Scared the masala out of me!
By: azure on November 1, 2009
at 10:35 am
This poem is a perfect Halloween stuff. If I set aside dark humor… the blast incident (in the market) was very, very gory hence this poem.
By: Ayesha on November 1, 2009
at 10:44 am
It is heartbreaking! whoever, has done it is more than a barbarian.Your poem has made me cry it is the true picture of whatever happened in the Downtown area, poor and innocent people lost their lives just for nothing.I live far away from home but I love Pakistan alot and I don,t want to hear anything bad about it. May Allah save my beautiful Peshawar! Amin
By: Irum Gul on November 1, 2009
at 10:10 pm