I beseech father I am hungry
By Riak Marial Riak, Juba, South Sudan
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I stood watching my groaning sheep on lea,
On the “grave of men” where I be calm and me,
Switching my eyes to see hare in a mirth
That day my ankles shook like a mortar.
I beseech my father I am faintly hungry.
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There are guards preventing me entering there;
There’s a sign telling me no way through
But father hear a voice quivering at your door,
My voice is troubled and troubled to cry,
O I beseech my father I am fistly hungry.
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I am tired of doing nothing to live,
This confinement father had confine me now,
My life why should be a lie here with me.
That people move in the sun sleek with hungry faces.
I beseech the day my father for terribly I am hungry.
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This song I sing is for all in the land,
There are people in agreement with sun
That rains should not descend again to Kush,
I see my sheep dosing with pimpernel in the wood.
I beseech my father I am beastly hungry.
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A double, double wind plagueing my dwindling life all days,
Many a time with unjust prone to the way.
I am a hollow pit with simmering embers in the night,
My eyes always break to unseen and sheen smouldering ash.
I beseech father I am ghastly hungry.
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Do not feed alone your expanding belly;
The clangour alarming a miser on the way to dark room,
There is strangling refusing unclear splashing in the land.
I am going like snow when face of brightness come
O I beseech the seal of the meal father I am hungry.
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Riak Marial Riak is a south Sudanese poet, actor/director, writer and self I taught philosopher. He writes poems about life, love, nature, death, war and society. He can be reached at riakden@gmail.com
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