Dear Ashraf Fayadh - Katherine Hastings

[Larry Robinson]

Dear Ashraf Fayadh,
 
Outside my window men speak
in a tongue I do not completely
understand.  These are the men
who work the soil, the vineyards,
who pray to another god and the
god’s mother, who sing you are
never alone.  We are all orphans
searching for light, harmony lost
to the stark meaning of man-made
laws.  In our hearts, the poem of
Love is perfected, is the most holy
relic of Time. Dear Ashraf Fayadh,
may you live happily among the
living, neither lashed nor beheaded,
on little islands of wonder, feeling
for all the gods what they are
incapable of feeling, each word,
each brush stroke, a golden bee
bathed in the breath of heaven.

	- Katherine Hastings
  
Note: Ashraf Fayadh is a Saudia Arabian artist and poet who has been sentenced to death, accused of promoting atheism in his 2008 book of poems Instructions Within. 
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