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Our Ostrich Syndrome
Organised demonic widespread terror
Taliban’s view - they’re heroes and martyrs
But for Afghan citizens, all their hopes deplete
Freedom and dignity laid at their conquerors feet
Each nation in their cozy cocoon, looks the other way
Humanity is oblivious to blue skies now turning grey
We are all interconnected, have we not yet learnt
Did not the Chinese virus see the world burnt
Brains have developed but hearts shrunk
Methinks humanity as a whole is now sunk
Memories are short, 9/11 is by now forgotten
Each in self-aggrandization, by power smitten
It’s not about Afghanistan but collective consciousness
We see in ourselves indifference and callousness
A far cry yet it seems our cognition spherical
We are cannibals, acts feral and inimical
22-August-2021
Afghanistan Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Kai Michael Neumann
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