Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker
Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker is a TEFL Teacher, Poet, Journalist, Activist, and Freelance Interpreter/ Translator from Umbda Omdurman – Sudan. He also has been working as a debate leader discussing various topics in many English Institutes, Centers, Academies and Schools. He can be reached at: americanslang64@gmail.com
Glory Shines upon Your Tears
If you want a horizon with peace in your motherland
You’ve got to stop the war
You will make your home a better place to live
And stop the war
You tauten for your departed inhabitants across the world
Fall in the cause of freedom
You will go down and trail to the land and fall to re-access the ground with merit and concord over Sudan evermore
The umbrage of treasure is lurking around the stricken roads
The cities standstill
Not tending for the rainstorm to drop on the street but being numb with heartache for all the lifeless souls
And a haze full of blood will be circulating among the dim arbors
And huckleberry leaping up in the orchards will turn black seeds
And this very war will give sloshing light of bright golden rays that can radiate each soul that is agonizing each heart that is constricting with pain
The glee days will come
It’s proven
And the sky will be neat
And those who come through will be living for those who aren’t here
There is a time when the gorgeousness and the sweetness of our dream come true in our beloved homeland where a million lives vanished everywhere
Many wounded folks in war!
Many victims in war!
There is victory in war!
You always evade lessons of war proceed to be abandoned, and disowned everywhere in the globe
Fighters
Servicemen
Militants’ inept liberty warriors
And sufferers are warring and murdering with glory while rippling the Sudanese flag
It is not only war that can stop war but men’s contentment
Mindful your mission can deal with such a deadly enemy
Peace means quitting the war
But also to relinquish persecution and tyranny
One love brings us together
Now and Forever
POET’S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The poem written on 25 August 2023, captures the fighting that makes it difficult to supply the population and already led to massive price increases for everyday goods. If the fighting continues, the dangers for the country and the region are immense. Hunger, lack of basic services, and massive refugee movements would be the result. The Islamist movement in Sudan could gain further influence. Civilians who feel threatened could arm themselves for self-protection, while the existing armed groups could join either side. The fragile neighboring countries could be destabilized and provide space for jihadist actors.
