In loving memory of Mehri Jafari, poet, lawyer, climber and member of Campaign’s legal team

Mehri as a lawyer for the Campaign

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?

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