submission by Fatemeh Ahmadi Shad (Yas)

[Afrooz Jafari Noor]

Terror

The little boy was playing happily.

He heard "terror" from the radio for the first time.

The word was strange to him

And that inauspicious evening

The word combined with his whole childhood.

A bullet ripped through his mother's heart

And the bitter meaning of "terror" 

Stole the sweetness from his life.

~*~

Fatemeh Ahmadi Shad (Yas), Iran

— I was born in June 2000 in Tehran, Iran. I am a student and love writing as a way to communicate my emotions. My pseudonym is 'Yas'.

~*~

[Richard Deodati]

A brief but sad story by Afrooz Jafari Noor, tells of the innocence and sudden transformation of a small boy into the brutal world of terror when his mother becomes the victim of a tragedy brought about by terrorism. "And the bitter meaning of terror stole the sweetness from his life." Very sad. Thank You, Afrooz, for your very sorrowful poem!