Saturday, 30 September 2017

MARJAN THE PEARL OF AFGHANISTAN . . .

MARJAN - THE PEARL OF AFGHANISTAN . . .



MARJAN MERA JAAN . . .

Given as a gift from Germany to Kabul zoo in Afghanistan
No fields to run in - just a miserable enclosed barring land

You were blessed with a beautiful lioness partner Chucha
She must have made you feel no less than a majestic Shah

You survived against all the invasions and the bloody wars
Behind your dark miserably cramped closed barring doors

You were a survivor that against all the cruelly made odds
And even threaten to be killed by the unholy Taliban sods

But your loyal keeper fought for your life using the Quran
Even the prophet Muhammad - helped you to understand

That an animal is to be respected - for he also had his pets
To kill you Marjan - would in the end have its own regrets

But you were brought down by an egotistical Mujahedeen
Who you killed for stroking your Chucha for fun it seemed

In turn the killed brother gave you three grenades as a gift
The damage it caused you was more than - deserved swift

You lost your sight in one eye and near all of it in the other
Because of a under deserving revenge of a grieved brother

You lost all of your teeth - with the blast all of your hearing
You then survived - to the Afghans became more endearing

That they took it upon themselves to then kill this very man
For the ignorance of the situation as he did not understand

You had thought this man was a threat to your lioness pride
As it was in the end his own fault he was attacked then died

As the wars in Afghanistan raged so did the famine drought
When it came to food I am afraid there was little of it about

But the Afghan people gathered in force to see you were fed
No one wanted the Shah Marjan from hunger be found dead

You came through all of this - skin sagging on a frame so lean
But for it all it never once made you - ferocious or seen mean

And as your beloved keepers walk with you within your closure
For all of your injuries you always maintained your composure

Your name traveled worldwide - and they all come to do their best
And after a quarter of a century you had then laid yourself to rest

This tribute is to you mera jaan Marjan – The pearl of Afghanistan
May you always with Chucha - fly free high above this desert land

Higher and higher with the longed for eternal peace may you soar
As the winds carry along with it your once mighty and proud roar

Marjan - 1976 - 2002 - Kabul Zoo – The Pearl of Afghanistan . . .

Indiana Shaw . . . -_-

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