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Why Norway, why in this way?
July 28, 2011 · 5 Comments
The following poem marks the terrorist attack that shocked the Norwegian people on July 22nd, 2011.
Why Norway, why in this way?
Why? A question with no answer
As no answer fills the void
No answer rises to decipher
Why Norway, why in this way?
Why terror strikes without a thought
Why it devastates, demolishes, devours
Why it raises hell that ends in naught?
But why Norway, why in this way?
Oslo is mourning, Utoeya is bleeding
Innocence is defiled, paradise betrayed
Common sense is for answers pleading
Why Norway, why in this way?
Flower after flower, beauty after beauty
The murderer chose with ill intent
To ambush life with heinous duty
But why Norway, why in this way?
With every cry, he chose to pry
No tear should live, to tell the tale
No young elite, no one to sigh
But why Norway, why in this way?
Small and tender as be they may
Adept Norwegians astounded all
As Vikings and Black Death they kept at bay
And never will they; another dismay,
Make them sway, not in this way
A home of democracy, a resort of peace,
Norway will remain, for all to breathe
No color to bar, no creed to cease
And never will they; another dismay
Make them sway, not in this way.
- Bashir Goth, July 24th, 2011.
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Mr Bashir are you pro or anti-somaliland today? what about tommorow?
Las Anod Boy
You must be foolish and socially inept. Take your retarded comment some where else.
From the Norwegian people I would like to thank you mr Bashir for your poem.
Bashir,
I agree, what happened in Norway was veracious and despicable, but I think it was more appropriate for you to say, why in Lower Juba, why in this way? The reason is that there are far more people loosing their lives in lower Juba than those lost in Norway and the world has shown indifference, while the victims of Norway massacre got all the sympathy that they deserve.
Think again and come up with better ideas to support our brethren in Somalia. bless your heart!
I think Bashir is fully aware what is going on in lower Jubba, if one can read his late article “Col iyo Abaar”. Bashir is philanthropist by nature. I think the best way is to have an equally compatible Norwegian poet who can make a response to bashir’s poem about the sad situation of Somalia and show the human connection and the kind feeling and sympathy towards one another. I applaud Bashir for his sympathy towards the kind and civilized Norway.