An Independence Day Poem for 9th July 2011
Oh! New Sun! Of South Sudan!
Do not set
By Dr. Achier Deng Akol Ayay
I see your emergence
You the New Sun
Of Independence
Of South Sudan
We’ve waited so long
Continue to rise
Do not set
With tearful eyes
Of a war orphan;
With blood of martyrs
For liberation
With drumbeats
And heartbeats
I welcome you
Do not set
Not long ago
Slavery grows
Bad suns glow
And misery flows
Let them go
For goodness sake
They hurt me
Do not set
As for you
My Sweetheart
Continue to shine
In my heart
And my mind
I love you
Do not set
With your mystical light
Protect our fragile boundary
And stop anymore fight
To safeguard our country
With its sovereign right
Do not set
Behold our brave army
And powerful women
See the youth entity
And mighty men
Ready to deliver
As Salva Kiir Mayardit
Raises our flag to-day
For our Promised Land
Do not set
For darkness
May come back
And badness
May slide back
To bring sadness
God forbid
Do not set
With future leaders kicking
In mothers’ wombs
Heroic martyrs smiling
In heaven’s rooms
And I ecstatically dying
In freedom blooms
Oh! The New Sun!
Of South Sudan!
Do not set!
Oh! New Sun! Of South Sudan! Do not set!.pdf
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