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This website is dedicated to the memory of Sharif Barko (also known as Majed Hassan). It has been created as a place to remember him, to tell his story and to celebrate his life.
Remembering Sharif
You were enduring as a tree,
your heart as wide as Africa.
I remember the autumn day
you shook the garden apples down,
heaped in a golden hail,
delighting neighbour children. Then
we could not know your pain.
And how with all your strength
shielding the innocent, you shook
your own life’s tree, and left
a golden child behind.
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