Homes sabotaged nowhere to be found the dried bushes. We are going to survive
Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker Abdalla, a poet and writer from war-ravaged African country Sudan, shares his fresh poem
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
We’re going to survive
How long your throb will go on
How deep your wound pique in the bottom of your soul
We are going to survive
We are going to survive
The bloodstream may never come apart
The acreage surface is stained like a fault on and on
We are going to survive
We are going to survive
Willy-nilly weapons in the whiff are killing races haphazardly in numbers
You have to flight
You have to salt away
You have to be under lock and key
You have to remain alive
You have to be unbreakable enough to endorse this catastrophe in Greenland
The empire is gone to hellfire
Pile out with hearing these gunshots around,
We are all going to survive
We are all going to survive
Soar up in the forenoon with terror in your heart
Fright evoked in your eyes
Cover up your bird snapper and cover up your range of vision, but the bullets still coming side by side and never go far
We are going to survive
We are going to survive
It’s the edge of the star and the heel of time
Twig your hopes and dreams
Where the ballgame is hanging by a thread
Homes sabotaged nowhere to be found the dried bushes
We are going to survive
We are going to survive
If you don’t hold and croak, you are a settler, but we will come again till the ravage is done.
POET’S NOTE
The poem written on 22nd June 2024 portraits that after a year of Sudan’s civil war conditions for many in the capital, Khartoum, are worse than ever – but some of those who escaped from the city in the early days are also struggling to survive. Peacemaking efforts and attempts at a ceasefire have all collapsed since fighting broke out in Khartoum last year. They are still besieged, and the fighting has not stopped, the RSF has penetrated the whole of Sudan and caused havoc, while the army is shelling their positions within the neighborhood. Death could come at any moment. An estimated 5000 Sudanese people have already been killed in crossfire between these two warring branches of the military, while many more have been injured.
