Allow me to go and to say goodby to you,
Dear mother! I won’t stay anymore, goodbye.
Englishmen have occupied my home,
By no means, I cannot stay anymore.
They play with our dignity and chastity,
I shy with my conscience.
It would be better at this moment to go to fight.
Alam Gul Naseri
25 July 2007
From Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn (eds),
Poetry of the Taliban (London: Hurst, 2012), p. 138