My God What Happened

Our First Afghan Poem

(Editor’s Note: Shir Aqa Sarbaz is a young Afghan refugee who recently arrived in the United States. Our paths crossed and he told me he was a poet, so I figured we should bring him on)

My house my home

My land full of bloom

My love my culture

My land full of nature

Oh God! what happened

Now everywhere is full of torture

We run and we run

to be safe from the g…