Du'a Khalil Aswad

[memento_mori]

Hatred or Honor?

beaten and naked on the streets
surrounded by mobs of angry people
shouting whore and traitor
while she lies broken and feeble

"you've disgraced the family
by loving those that hate
how can you do that to us?
after we put food on your plate?"

what did Du'a Khalil do
to deserve such cruelty?
she was with her boyfriend last night
her boyfriend is a Sunni

it's an updated Verona
with Romeo running for his life
as Juliet is mutilated
on the evening news at five

religous intolerance
bringing 'justice' to the sinner
a rose by any other name
would taste just as bitter


© memento_mori

 

[drb]

you have an amazing way with words..very good work.

 

[memento_mori]

you have an amazing way with words..very good work.

you can make it a song if you promise to have a good beat

 

[BreakfastSurreal]

awesome mori!

 

[Eridanus]

A fabulous provoking poem, Mori.

 

[SilentEyz]

I really Like that.. Very diffrent, very unique

 

[dt3]

Damn dude, did you really write that? If you did, that's incredible! Wow, is all I can say...

 

[memento_mori]

Damn dude, did you really write that? If you did, that's incredible! Wow, is all I can say...

man i get that a lot. i'm putting © memento_mori at the end of my stuff now to show i write it.

 

[drb]

FYI~ they arrested 4 of the men who did that to her

 

[memento_mori]

good. we can't let this kind of stuff go on with out doing something about it.

 

[memento_mori]

Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation - Public murder of Kurdish teenager

 

[memento_mori]

you! yes, you! sign the petition!