for Auntie Faith,
God rest her soul.

13-09-2013 Kilimani, Zanzibar*

Your daughters, all four of them
Your beautiful daughters
All dressed the same,
Tears streaming down their cheeks
One by one, grabbing a handful of sand
Emptying it over your grave.

I was woken up at 3:17 am
I was told the news,
I thought of your daughters, all four of them
Now without a mother.

The soul is gone.