Kabul Has Fallen

Kabul Has Fallen Kabul has fallen The news screams Kabul has fallen In less than two weeks The intel officers Got it so wrong Everyone said That Kabul would not fall That the center would hold Yet Kabul fell Faster than anyone thought It would The right-wing media Are having a field day Screaming Who lost Afghanistan As if it was ours To begin with The Taliban Are playing it cool Taking control Letting the Americans Leave the country The Taliban are back Will they be vicious As before? Have they learned A lesion? Only time will tell History they say Does not repeat But it does rhyme And the fall of Saigon Resonates in the air As flights flee The fallen city The Taliban gleefully Taking over And America has another black eye A failure of leadership A failure of vision A failure to understand And a failure ultimately Of American might Even American For all of its power Cannot control Another land So, Kabul falls American power weakens Politics divide us Our enemies rejoice In their victory Against the arrogant Americans Ending Pax America And America being back Kabul has fallen And we can not do anything To take it back Thousands of died But for what? In the end We could not hold Kabul For it was not ours to hold