On the occasion of the life sentence against the butcher of Gohardasht Prison
Suicide at Gohardasht Prison
By Majid Naficy
In Memory of Jalil Shahbazi
They have wiped off
The stains of your blood
From Gohardasht Prison’s lavatory
And have buried your body still alive
With thousands of summer ‘88 victims
In the Cemetery of the Infidels.*
But I still feel
That shard of glass
In my body and soul
When you decided not to step
Into the hallway of death
Lest faced with the question of a sharia judge:
“Are you an apostate or a Muslim?”
You turn left to the slaughter house
Or right to a miserable life.
September 12, 2009
*- In summer 1988, ordered by Khomeini, thousands of political prisoners were secretly killed and buried in the Cemetery of the Infidels in Tehran and other places.
بمناسبت حکم حبس ابد برای دژخیم زندان گوهردشت در سوئد
خودکشی در زندان گوهردشت
مجید نفیسی
بهیاد جلیل شهبازی
آنها لکههای خون تو را
از دستشویی زندان گوهردشت شستهاند
و پیکر نیمهجانت را
با هزاران قربانی تابستان شصتوهفت
در گورستانِ کُفرآباد چال کردهاند.
با این همه, هنوز من
آن شیشهی شکسته را
در جسم و جان خود حس میکنم
وقتی بر آن شدی
به راهروی مرگ پامگذاری
مبادا در برابرِ پرسش قاضیالقضات
که "مرتدی یا مسلمان؟"
به چپ رَوی به قتلگاه
یا به راستِ زندهزار.
بیستونهم سپتامبر دوهزارونه
Sonya Sabanac:
Dear Majid, your poetry is always very moving and, as this one is, also painfull to read. Cannot not think how human race could be so cruel, so inhuman.
I so wish this world is far a better place than it is. Only people like you bring compassion which is largely missing and disappearing from the Planet Earth.
Your friend and great admirer of your poetry, Sonya Sabanac
Lillian Boraks Nemetz
Dear Majid
This poem really resonate
Within me and I am sure in those
Who have experienced murder, chaos, and injustice —Experiences, that like “the shards of glass “ that
“enter my body and soul,” leave lasting scars on the
People and their country.
Love
Lillian
Elahe :
Majid jaan,
I posted your poem for Hamid Nouri to my Facebook.
Ba Mehr
Soraja:
سلام مجید جان ممنون برای شعر های زیبایت. محاکمه حمید نوری، یک محاکمه تاریخی بود همچنانکه میدانی این دادگاه و حکم ان از اعتبار بین المللی برخوردار است.
جای همه طرفداران حقوق بشر در جلوی دادگاه خالی بود.