Mama South Sudan

By Joe Mabor Agany, Malaysia

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Mama! Mama! Mama South Sudan!

Would you listen to your kid, would u listen to my cry?

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Dear Mama! Mother of beautiful blacks,

Have you forgot your children?

Wouldn’t you look back? Just once at them?

Would you leave them all to perish?

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Motherland! Greenland that yield milk and oil!

Your children turn against each other,

Killing a brother is their game now.

They hate each other. Won’t you show them some love?

Wouldn’t you teach them to love and not to hate?

Isn’t mother’s role to teach children how to love?

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Mama! Mama! I am calling you, mama South Sudan!

Wouldn’t you tell your kids that they all black? Would you?

Wouldn’t you tell them that you, their mother unite them all? Would you?

Wouldn’t you let them know that their enemies laugh at them? They mock at your kids slaughtering each other for no go reason. Would you?

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Mother! Mother of beautiful black skinned people!

Wouldn’t you make your beloved children to love?

Wouldn’t you make them to care for each other?

Wouldn’t you tell them to stop killing each other?

Wouldn’t you teach them how to live in peace and harmony?

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We look up to you mama! We cry for your help mum.

Your kids’ blood floods you every day,

Their cries have made a lot of noise for you?

Mother have pity on us. We look up to you mum!

Give us peace. Enlighten our hearts with love.

We love you mum! We fathers sacrificed their lives for you, we can do that too.

You are our beloved mother. I will love you forever mum.

We love you motherland South Sudan.

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The writer is an inspired and concerned South Sudanese currently studying in Malaysia. He can be reached at in jmagany@gmail.com for any question. All concerns in this poem personal.

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