PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd – South Sudan

"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing" By Konstantin Josef Jireček, a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.

SOUTH SUDAN WAR CHILD

By Awuol Gabriel Arok, Juba, South Sudan

Trembling with fear, living on the predicament part of life,

Miserable war-child, thinking of tomorrow,

Looking deep into the earth horizon;

Death and sorrow he can see;

Innocent child, living on the remembrance,

Of the sorrowful past, feeding on the;

Upcoming curses of the future,

Gazing into the deep blue sky; only

Lovely birds engulf in the cloudy smoke of the sky-;

He can see;

Adeh! Sudan mother of the war child.

Sudan; a mother without mercy;

Sudan, a mother without future plan;

For her born and long-lived River Nile,

Mountains blast in agony; bombarded;

By the rude mother,

Trees cry in the cloudy flame of fire;

Towns inhabited by poisonous scorpions,

There you are scoundrel mother of the war-child.

Our beautiful land infested with rude personnel mines;

Nowhere to plant seeds of love;

Nowhere to cultivate future seedlings for the aging forest,

No building; but mangles of buildings you can see;

Owned by uncultured rats; who care-less of human present,

Human pointed weapons at one another, without mercy;

Groaning and mourning are my mother pride

Adeh! Sudan mother of the war-child

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Awuol Gabriel Arok @May 2009, Juba

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