TO RAMIN HOSSEIN PANAHI, HANGED TODAY

Death was approaching,

the death they had announced,

your death, your young life ending.

You announced a hunger-strike

and sewed your lips together;

the pain was lesser than the will to live.

They unsewed your lips,

they put a noose around your neck

and they hanged you.

They hanged you, Ramin;

they took all your days away from you

and they left you in darkness.

08.09.2018