Monday 20 July 2015

Yes. Yes. Yes.



No
Keep your daughter’s name.
When she is growing up
Call her name, shout it or screech it
Till iron starts to run in her veins.


No
Keep your daughter’s name.
When she’ll be a grown up
She’ll be like a wolf so strong

That no lion can tame.

Wednesday 15 July 2015

Kill honour


How easy it was
for them to force
the honour
like stainless steel knife
into her mouth.

And how her throat 
was full of just love
when the first time
she called them
‘mamma’
and 'baba’.

Saturday 11 July 2015

Brunt


And the day after all the
Breaking,
Mother takes God
Off the shelf,
Shakes the dirt from
His shoulders.

After all  the damage
Her heart is still big.
But He’s smaller than

He once was.