Poem: “Hunger Threatens Life”
Dear PaanLuel Wel,
I am to submit to PaanLuel Wel website for consideration to publish the piece that follows to educate the general public on the vital importance of farming as a gateway to strong economic establishment and sustainability.
I appreciate the role that the site played and will to play the awareness creation to the citizens of our beloved country: South Sudan.
Regards,
John Makur Garang
By John Makur Garang
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Hunger is an arch enemy of life
Hunger threatens life
Hunger inhibits growth and development
Farming has been and will
Remain a sole answer to hunger
Farming is a noble vocation
Farming provides sustenance to life
Farming creates wealth and above all,
Farming builds a concrete foundation for your dignity;
Farming thus earns you an eternal respect and legacy (x 9)
Farming is medicinal to hunger,
Farming is a hospital which everyone yearns for its product
Presidents can’t do without food!
Ministers, lawyers, professors, army generals, students,
police, prison and indeed everybody can’t do without food!!
Food is a human fuel, that ignites it’s engine and sustains provision of energy
Food is life and life is food
The human blood vessel works better when it is flooded with good food
When there is no good food, all good deeds risk being eroded
We are endowed with precious arable land, river and rain water
We are endowed with brains and energetic muscles to wisely use
Let’s combine these endowments to find solution to hunger and poverty
Ox ploughing is an affordable sustainable farming technique
Adopt to maximise production via increase of land under
cultivation and yield increase
Our freedom from hunger, poverty and economic servitude lies in farming
Jubilation and euphoria over CPA and it’s offspring:
The independence of South Sudan has rekindled
amazing degree of idleness among the population
Dependence, corruption, theft, robbery and cattle rustling
emerged as new coping strategies.
Dependence begets grand corruption and nepotism
Starvation is the terminal result of hunger or famine!
Experience is the best teacher as has always been said
The worst and the best events offer good learning points
South Sudan learning points are the brazen present manifestations:
Devastating war, hyper inflation, dilapidated road conditions and a looming famine
All must carry out farming to care for the dear ones: politicians, soldiers, police, prison, professors, lawyers, students/pupils, farmers and entire citizenry should respond to this inevitable call to defeat hunger and eradicate poverty
Hunger is formidable
The formidable answer is farming
The rescue to the economy is farming
The doctor to prescribe medicines to cure
hunger and ailing economy is farming
The euphoria and jubilation are now over
It is now time to rejuvenate the chorus of euphoria
and jubilation via farming
No time to wait and waste
No energy to spare and waste
Time is now to start and sustain framing
Rescue! Rescue! Rescue! Through farming
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