Mothers of Sons (Twenty years wasted to abandonment)

by David RL Moore

Wednesday 4th December 2024 3:06 pm

Women cradled newborn babes veiled with a mothers blood,

their hands steady and assured.

Their love knew no jealous god, no book or holy ground,

their voices spoken not written.

Beaten and defiled by men borne by woman's pain,

men corrupted by instruction and fear.

Their bodies vessel's of nurture and hope, broken by hate,

bloodied fists against bare flesh.

They are the Mother of the world, the womb of all that is.

are they the new christ to suffer the father?

Men, so weak they are afraid of their own humanity yet they exalt terror,

frightened, ignorant, selfish pigs of men.

Who weeps for these women of mass matricide?

Who shows mercy, if not their Sons?

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David RL Moore

Fri 6th Dec 2024 13:06

Hi Reggie,

Thank you so much for chipping in here.

If only I had some answers reggie, alas I am as confused as the oyster. It was my belief that women would pull AFG out of oblivion with there logic and progressive thinking.

Unfortunately, along came the bigots to thwart their rise...and then we abandoned them when we had milked all the available contracts.

Shameful and inexcusable behaviour which left young men and women of many nations dead in ditches.

Occasionally I have to turn off my TV as I do not particularly enjoy weeping infront of others...but there you go, that's what you get for giving a fuck.

Thanks for reading and sharing your own disheartenment (is that a word?)

David

Reggie's Ghost

Fri 6th Dec 2024 12:10

My heart sinks every time I hear of a new law passed against Afghan women. But what can be done, we've all had a go at trying to change the regime but it reverts back? You're in a better position that most David to answer that question.

David RL Moore

Thu 5th Dec 2024 07:09

Thanks to Uillieam, Stephen, Tobani and Yanma for the likes.

Thanks for your comment Uilleam.

I spent six years in total in Afghanistan during what were known as the consolidation and reconstruction phases of the country. Much of that time we interacted with administrative and operatonal elements of the new Afghan Government. Many positions in that new government structure were occupied by Afghan women who quickly stepped up to the plate.

In my opinion some of those women were not as ready to tolerate the traditionally accepted BS of systems too easily obstructed by fundamentalism and discriminatory practices. They changed the landscape of how the country was progressing. Even so they had to combat the corruption of the Government overseen by Hamid Karzia, no easy task for anyone.

Now they are being stripped of all they won by the primative rule of the scared little men of the Taliban. It is a desperate situation, everyday there is murder and criminality enacted upon the women of Afghanistan.

After the time I spent there I was convinced it would be the women of the country who would overcome tyranny and free the place from crippling religious and discriminatory rule. The men are weak and too far down the line of accepting their lot. Corruption is common place and firmly woven into everyday practice.

Who knows what will happen. With all the other shit going on around the world AFG will fall back into the blind spot of the west. Again, training camps will be established and the entire cycle will replay itself.

In the mean time women will be enslaved and murdered while we do nothing.

David.

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Wed 4th Dec 2024 13:23

Thank you David.
What words can ever adequately describe the truth of such horrors. Yet you manage to do so.
The pain in the hearts of anyone with an ounce of humanity in them would overwhelm us were it not for the need to hope against hope.

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Mothers of Sons (Twenty years wasted to abandonment)

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