To A Suicide Bomber

You have brought not paradise...


(Poem By An American Muslim)

By Dr. Rafey Habib
Author- USA
Sunday, 11 September 2011 09:04

You do not speak for me:

You who soak yourselves in blood

Are far from the Prophet’s mantle.

You who act beyond the Book

Are far from the Word.

You do not speak for me:

You who do not know, and kill,

Murder your own soul

You blew up a young girl.

A mother’s heart will bleed forever.

A father’s will is broken.

Because of you their world is ended.

What good have you done?

With each act of your violence, Your enemies grow stronger, harsher More justified in killing and conquest. Each life you take weakens your cause, turns, An indifferent world against you.

Your own wife, young,

Curses you in her sleep, her nightmare.

Your children betrayed

To a myth; they still ask for you.

Your parents dragged

Through your empty dream.

Because of you their world is ended.

You have brought not paradise

But hell: hell to all around you.

Their ghosts will rise around you,

Asking: Why? Why?

What good have you done?