"Abyss"
For My Suffering Afghan Sisters And All other Women Who Suffer The Same
Plight
By
Zieba Shorish-Shamley
November, 2000
Forced down in abyss, void is deep and dark
Demonic sound of horror, no light or a mark
Murk has devoured dawn, evil waits in shade
Path is full of danger, deadly traps are laid
Ugly claws of fear, tighten around my neck
Feeling chills of death, helpless, alone and sick
Vicious crawling insects, repeatedly attack
My weak dying body, I can't keep them back
In this cloak of darkness, demon-like snake(s)
Disperse vile and venom, everywhere they take
Commit satanic deeds, agents of foreign rule
Having foul intention, they use horrid tool(s)
Vultures run around, ripping us a part
Dancing on the corpses, tearing out hearts
Peril all around, murder, vice and rape
Torture with no end, no one can escape
Wicked invaders bark, they howl like a beast
Feeding on the dead, they have appalling feast
Their grip of death, silenced young and old
Women, girls and boys, molested, then sold
Chilling shriek of wind, arctic, starless night
Hunger, ill and misery, can't move and can't fight
Shackles on my feet they have sewn my lips
Beating me with chain, cut off the fingers tips
Stolen my child's kidney as well as her life
They sell body part(s)! Carve us with the knife
Her lovely little body, tortured in this way
I couldn't save her life, I have no rights or say
Red run all the river(s) in my beloved land
Pools of blood are formed, in desert barren sand
The alien assassins have massacred in rage
My heroic people, killed, vanished, or in cage
Keeps us down by force this monstrous reign
They are all deranged, they are all insane
They have fanatic zeal, warped faith, false notion
Demolish source of insight, with lunatic devotion
They took away my sight, does world still exist?
Why is there such silence, why does no one assist?
I have appealed for help, time after time again
Don't you hear my voice? Can't you share my pain?
Do not sit and watch, my misery and torment
Don't be blind and silent, Stand! Don't be dormant!
Join me, resist with me, we must win this fight
We must end injustice, evil mustn't gain might
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