Following the hideous execution of PMOI martyr Gholamreza Khosravi by Iranian regime authorities, American poet Carole Fontaine beautifully described his struggle in a short poem, ‘For Gholamreza’.
As an introduction, Carole Fontaine says:
I know we are all thinking about the execution the other day in Tehran.
I have a particular contempt for blasphemy laws in religion, much like honor killings—men claim that God is the author of their violence! But it is just a lie used to terrorize.
If supporting the MEK is blasphemy, may God give us all loud voices so our blasphemy rattles the bars in every prison and the walls come crashing down!

‘For Gholamreza’
 

A god with laws of blasphemy
Can scarcely claim divinity
If “he” needs man’s protection.
No, that god of torturers
Does not exist in any heaven;
He is just the manufacture
Of the murderers of Evin!

Compassion does not execute,
Nor scorn the prisoners’ claim,
Only hypocrites do that,
While babbling God’s name.

Are you thinking you have won?
You do not know what you have done:
Long ago in Galilee
There was a case of blasphemy:
A prophet spoke his truth to power,
Faithful to his final hour.
He proved difficult to kill—
Sufferers call upon Him still.
So it was, and so it is:
Your powers of death can never live.

You can kill the body,
But you cannot slay the soul,
Nor can you destroy the cause
for which our prisoner died.
We speak of Gholamreza
Everywhere with pride,
And from his death
we draw more strength
To fight all he despised.

For shame, O Mullahs
with the Bloody hands!
Earth’s Death Dust swirls around you,
And chokes off your escape:
May you  reap the whirlwind harvest
That you sow with all your hate.

Carole Fontaine