Dedicated to Tamekia: Stay with Me
Can you hug me before I awake
In pain, to clanking chains…
Al-istiqamah is proud to publish the second in a series of exclusive poems written by brother Daniel Joseph Maldonado on the loss of his wife in war-torn Somalia. Daniel was arrested by the Kenyan military in January 2007 and handed over the US authorities. His wife Tamekia died of malaria near the Kenyan-Somalian border. In April 2007 he pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving training from a foreign terrorist organization and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in June.
Read full poem at al-istiqamah.com here
