A Dishonourable Killing (For Medine Memi 1994 - 2010) Poem by Richard Theze

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,
Swallow it,
Suffocate beneath it.
Your punishment,
Their restoration,
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 your promising
Life,
Smothered,
Taken.
No words …