You asked me how I could just sip my wine

When my fellow interpreters suffer in vain

In the country that just fell to the Taliban

Who are the ‘students’ of the Koran

I exclaimed how it sends shivers down my spine

Seeing their chance to escape the brutal reign

Abruptly taken away with their fate slain

With their loyalties questioned once again

You knew both sides too well

Because you command both tongues like spell

While your brains work like Dell

Your hearts explode like millions of shells

No sides can blame you for the failure

Both sides in fact should praise you for your bravery

Which never died in the past crossfire

But will survive in the uncertain recovery