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Aafia O Aafia: A Poem by Fauzia Siddiqui (Aafia's Sister)
Aafia O Aafia
What is your destiny
I do not understand
A Muslim woman you are
A mother, daughter, sister too
Your kids embrace you so miss
Your mother sister brother too
Aafia O Aafia
What is your destiny I do not understand
Education was your passion
Helping poor and needy too
Quran was your true love
Humanity and humility too
Aafia O Aafia
What is your destiny I do not understand
Tortured mercilessly you were
Stripped and abused too
A victim of the war on terror
Open and Secret brutality too
Aafia O Aafia
What is your destiny, I do not understand
An icon of innocence
Determination and purity too
A woman so Nobel
A hero and nations pride too
Aafia O Aafia
What is your destiny, I do not understand
But this I surely know
Like Mandela, innocent you are too
If you are a terrorist
So is every humanitarian activist too.
Aafia O Aafia
What is your destiny?
I do not understand!
4 comments:
As i read its every line, tears gathered in eyes and finally rolled down over my cheeks..
we are at such a state that how we dont know what to pray for Afia.even if she is released she will be too sick to enjoy life!
i just hope that may all others remain safe from such a tragedy..
can i plz use this on my blogsite as well?
Hello dear ReeBz! Yes, I do so feel the way you do. Of course you may use anything on my blogsite on your's.
What is given to us is to do the best we can and while we continue to pray for healing to be also concerned to heal the structures of our societies so that others don't have to suffer in like manner.
If you have time read what you are able both on my blogsite and elsewhere and send me suggestions:
newlease7@yahoo.com (I'm not doing facebook at this time - too busy on this case and leaving it quiet on facebook for another day may be best but I'm not sure - is my intuition.)
Also plz read the mother's open letter to Michelle I recently posted. Plz send me some new on the case from Pakistan. How are you?
Best to you friend,
Connie
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