The Oracles of Kush
By David Mayen Dengdit
Behold all ye vendors of souls
Last fractions of time have come
Great prophesies fulfilled
Haunting momentous apex
Boundless records vanished en route
As Ngundeng gaudily foresaw
Bloody rivers into curative waters
Irrigating planes of grain fields
Soothing starving children of the Nile
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Isaiah’s Biblical oracles of old testaments
Gazed across Pharaohnic repression and plagues
Watched over Messianic horizons of healing
Through revelations of dark days in Kush
Beyond mass exodus and ultimate subjugation
Shall rise a great nation feared by all.
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Here we were standing at the peak
Flipping the last of many red pages
Hearing echoes of giggling children
Long heard before Christ by John
On mothers’ backs safely snarled
Startled by surrounding fauna
Torrents, flora and hills
In a sacred domicile for all
Colossi finally nurtured.
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David Mayen Dengdit
Juba 107 – August 2016
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