"Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet SWS said: "…Everything of a human body will waste away' perish or decay except the last coccyx (back) bone (Al-ajb, Arab.) and from that bone Allah will reconstruct the whole body" (On the day of Judgement)
'Backbone'
These women
They see
Concaved shaped shores
That strike bullets from seashells
Narrowly missing their men and
Piercing their supple skin instead
Scars that leave a map of Babylon
Lining their backs and thighs
Leaving them with a limp
When they walk
Creating trails of irregular footprints
Footpaths a smudged grey colour
Like the elephant they take solace under
Ivory tusks that drip with the women's marrowbone
And worn off indho-kohl
These women with
Perspirating backs that carry gaunt shadows for babies
Picking up backbones to bury
Rwanda’s sacrum
Sudan’s vertabrae
Congo’s spinal discs
Somalia’s tailbone
These women never ask:
Who will bury theirs?
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