In loving memory of Mehri Jafari, poet, lawyer, climber and member of Campaign’s legal team
Mehri was a Poet, lawyer and experienced climber.
in July 2021 she went on a mission to climb the hardest mountain peaks in Kyrgyzstan and sadly fell down into a glacier where she would remain forever. Members of the campaign, her family and her partner, Steve mourn her death.
I wrote this piece to remember her as a friend with a big heart and a smiling face.
In loving memory of Mehri:
Come back from the cold,
the finality is not the final.
When you envelope your hands
round my face to see the reflection of your smile
in my eyes.
I am cold but your memory breaths fresh air
from the words written on a stone
that remains somewhere deep inside the glacier.
Who is to say who mourns your smile?
you?
The one who is immortal
far-away from memory
or the one who was left behind
in the glacier of memory
waiting for you to return
and envelope me to the sunshine of a smile?