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The Blue Nile and the Tribal Clashes – A Poem from Sudan

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The Blue Nile and the Tribal Clashes – A Poem from Sudan
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This poem is about the recent tribal clashes in the southern Sudanese state of Blue Nile which claimed life of at least 65 people, and around 150 people injured. The fighting had sparked by the killing of a farmer. Thousands of people had fled their homes since the clashes broke out. Sudan has a long history of tribal violence and is in turmoil since the military took over in a coup in October last year. The coup upended the country’s short-lived transition to democracy after nearly three decades of repressive rule under Omar al-Bashir. He and his Islamist government were removed from power in a popular uprising in April 2019.

Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker

 

The Blue Nile and the Tribal Clashes

No need to fight each other killing ourselves like wild animals,

We all belong to a clan same in the name, belief and identity, and burgeon.

 

As a whole we are Sudanese under the sun, and will sparkle, vivid when we shake off fetter for clannish when we can empathy nourishment for bounty, hate for love, animosity for pity, hostility for pax.

 

We can plan for the future, going ahead, shine much radiant on our hearts as a family.

Well, we’re thirsty of peace, color bar gigs our fatherland Sudan

Although we have several ace with love, there is no barricade.

 

Tribalism raises favoritism is evil; oh children of Adam! We are one family.

 The long in the tooth, we become, the more we catch that it’s okay to live a life others don’t follow.

 Singe burning heart shines on murky to where the grey-hair sit; preponderant, disdainful with time’s cinders at our land.

 

This might be the falsehood by means of, I tell you the actuality implicit passion is passing strayed like fullness.

 Ignorance never builds, but destroys the unity; footsteps away intimacy and instills repugnance is all shift to murdering.

 

Soul cribs where are all our eyes cast a shadow over variable colors Black and White.

The soreness has coming to blows in our heart: love against malevolence, love against hazard.

 

O Allah! Come and rescue us never dislike each other but we no longer have the potency to dovetail.

We were born to educate from each other reflects our attachment, while times gained odium, and contra taken.

Not living on the prejudice we have done to ourselves, then good will have vanquish evil.

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Yousif-Ibrahim-Sudan-Sindh-CourierYousif Ibrahim Abubaker is a poet and writer from Omdurman Umbda -Sudan. He 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.