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2nd Poem by Daniel Joseph Maldonado

March 11, 2008 · No Comments

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.

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