Flower
Once in a week or two, maybe three,
a woman is plucked,
a wife, mother or budding sister,
a blossom from her family flowerbed.
The plucking hand didn’t waver,
nor was it turned in.
The earth covers her body,
blood shrieking out is silenced.
The family flowerbed is put right,
Honor is restored.
***
Murder files are opened and often oddly closed.
No witnesses, no, no evidence or traces.
The murderers walk free.
27 women were murdered in the year 2018.
Many by one of their own family.
“#me too”
“Hiroshima Nagasaki”
“murder in the family”
“violence”
“knife and fork”
