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.
Please Quit The Fight
All of a sudden we would cry,
You have no heart,
You are grungy chicken as you flew bullets over our town.
We are peaceful people
Cruel aggression was never planned,
But always borne on the wings of fury
In allegory and similitude of sneer.
You have kept millions weeping and wailing
While you won and chewing on their legacy
Because you want to leg up the country
There is the blood of the pure
You have shed on the ground making no bones
Many virtuous people kicked the bucket by your negative power.
Skullcap and citizens of the glorified soul
You have dispersed the way the hearts
Of the upright you have wounded and displaced
Think in the mind of your mother, father, sister and brother who are dying
No one is free from danger as you kill out and other ill-treated.
The whole country with its cities and places should bite the dust,
Though all the world would come to wonder why?
And peace is what the reaping machine never sows,
We die and drown, and now it seems this shall not always be the way
The way to peace it seems crystal isn’t through irrational annihilation.
I appeal to all please cease the fire and save our sons and daughters
To find our way out of the fog
We need only and seek the light
A solution lies within our common sense to build Sudan
It was never better before
Firstly we have to forget who is false or true?
______
POET’S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The poem was written on 26th April 2023. Intense clashes between Sudan’s military and the country’s main paramilitary force have killed hundreds of people and sent thousands fleeing for safety, as a burgeoning civil war threatens to destabilize the wider region. The clashes erupted in the middle of April amid an apparent power struggle between the two main factions of the military regime. The Sudanese armed forces are broadly loyal to Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the country’s de facto ruler, while the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a collection of militia, follow the former warlord Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti. The power struggle has its roots in the years before a 2019 uprising that ousted the dictatorial ruler Omar al-Bashir, who built up formidable security forces that he deliberately set against one another. When an effort to transition to a democratic civilian-led government faltered after Bashir’s fall, an eventual showdown appeared inevitable, with diplomats in Khartoum warning in early 2022 that they feared such an outbreak of violence. In the weeks before clashes broke out tensions had risen further.
