A Dishonourable Killing (For Medine Memi)

A Dishonourable Killing
For Medine Memi

Helpless, we read
Of the violent
Unthinkable death
Of a teenaged girl,
Hands tied,
Buried alive,
By those you
Loved, who loved you,
Yet watched you
Claw the earth
Breath it,
Suffocate beneath it.
Your punishment,
By honour demanded,
For life without honour is
No life.

No words
Describe honour
Bought by
The death of a child
At a father’s hand.
No words
Can ease the
Painful
Senselessness
Of a promising
Life,
Smothered,
Taken.
No words …