I am a Dinka

By Taban Abel Aguek, Rumbek, South Sudan

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I am a Dinka

I’m a mere simple Dinka

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Here I meet you in this unknown bush

And you are the unknown gun man

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You ask me if I am MTN

I say No

You ask me if I am not a Dinka

I look at you in the face, I say am Dinka

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You shoot me in the head

I die…

I die but not the Dinka

I only die…

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I am a Dinka

I am not a regime

You shoot me and I die

The regime remains

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I become useless

You too become useless

So, there go the two of us

The two that gained nothing

The Killer

And the Killed…

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