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
Copyright © Jake Aller | Year Posted 2021
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