Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker Abdalla
A poet and writer from Omdurman Umbda –Sudan, Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker works as an English Instructor, Trainer and Freelance Interpreter. He also has been working as a debate leader discussing various topics in many English Institutes, Centers, Academy and schools. He represents Sindh Courier as Honorary Correspondent in Sudan.
Once You Hit A Certain Age
We had to repent to The Almighty God to reform ourselves Handled with each other in believability, deference,
And conscience to investigate admissibly from our prohibitive Bargains before we invoked God to elevate the calamity.
Regardless of the posture, people advocated fancy assented across a catastrophe that came to Sudan.
How did huge buildings be burned and stolen?
While they have become a spot for the oppressors:
The owner of a house cost and a lodger who didn’t tend the covenants weren’t obtained, how were they sabotaged?
How did banks and the markets be burned? Priority presided over all their transactions, peerless ratio in all nations of the world.
But we are Sudanese who accepted what occurred to our land was the commodity of our tacky deeds.
How did Khartoum be burned? On the heads of people who had peso without dishonor
Or even ravishing into account a needy portrayal presenting our accident, with those scandalous forms top up scenes.
We had ages, and we were in an uninterrupted slump of the ethics and morality in all its simplification.
Even most of the expatriates took an advantage of their financial transfers to destroy Sudan’s currency and contribute to raising its disgrace and demolition.
How could our emporiums be burned, plunders in daybreak eat people’s sliver was diffusing approach in most of its smuggling wide-spreading language dealt with the matter as if it was a common thing.
How did cities? Khartoum north/ south and Omdurman be burned partially? Transgress the rights of passers – On the road, every tradesman put their trade on aside thoroughfare and pours them to squander of their trade on rowing.
Poet’s note
This poem is about the erosion of morality and ethics and having seen their aftershocks. There is an urgent need for ethical and moral revitalizations to correct some of the social problems that are plaguing our communities and nation. Fighting in Sudan has continued endlessly since it began on April 15, when violence broke out between the country’s army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces. The two are engaged in a power struggle over who gets to run the resource-rich nation that sits at the crossroads between North Africa, the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea.
