Aafreen Gets Her Fill

Aafreen Gets Her Fill By Elton Camp The sad result of the abuse of women by religious zealots Aafreen is waiting inside the front door She’s had enough and won’t take more Day-by-day she endures being isolated It’s a life that she has thoroughly hated She can just barely read and write To learn even that, she had to fight Because she’s not allowed to drive a car It isn’t easily possible for her to go far Anywhere outside the house she does go She must wear a burka from head to toe That makes it hard to see where she’s going But nothing but her hands can be showing From her husband she takes a beating If any strange man she is greeting Even if Aafreen is seriously ill No male doctor, lest he get a thrill She must speak only in a hushed tone Lest by her voice she becomes known It’s a pistol she has leveled and waiting For the husband she’s intensely hating The moment the tyrant steps inside She ends forever overbearing pride Though execution she has to expect Such a life she just had to reject Religious extremism causes harm And rightly creates much alarm The true God will call it to account some day And then it must be punished for its evil way