A poem for Ashraf Fayadh
Saudi courts, your rule of fear is finished
- the sentence on this poet negates your faith.
Your hollow incantation "God Is Great"
is plainly false if God can be diminished
by lines of verse. Should murder be admonished
to Ashraf Fayadh, forevermore his fate
will hold as evidence that you're afraid
of poetry. Frankly I'm astonished:
astonished that a land so steeped in culture,
in literature and learning long ago
aspires to quash the language of the future.
Your ploy to silence Ashraf is absurd.
Exercise your wisdom and you'll know
that poets can be removed but not their words.
jeremy young
Sun 17th Jan 2016 04:06
"Here's one, just to demonstrate how mistaken the Saudi courts are in thinking they can silence anybody"
yes I took that poem as a theme - the difference between us is that I recognise why it is revolutionary, and why he stands condemned as an apostate for writing what he did
this statement alone
"you too tend to forget that you are
a piece of bread"
and that is before you get into
"prophets have retired
so do not wait for yours to come to you
and for you,
for you the monitors bring their daily reports
and get their high salaries..
how important money is
for a life of dignity"
he's certainly a brave man, deserving of support, and doesn't deserve to be beheaded
at which point - this being the internet - there should be a but... but... I'll not succumb and simply pose the question posed by Tom Holland, in a debate on free speech (with regard to the film innocence of muslims) 'but what of god?'