Rivers are full

This is a poem posted on the darfurgenocide.org website. Please check it out.http://www.darfurgenocide.org
Rivers are Full, by Amos Aguny Kur Darfur is just the latest episode in a series of genocidal campaigns by the Sudanese Government. Amos Kur fled Sudan when he was nine, escaping the genocidal onslaught from the Government against black pastoralist tribes in the south of the country.Read more

Rivers are Full

Rivers are full with our bodies.
Yet the World has not discovered it.Why?

The land is white,covered with our bones.
Yet the World has not seen it.Why?

Our flesh is the food of the birdsof prey, and wild animals.
Yet the World doesn’t know it.Why?

Our blood forms streams that flow like streams of water.
Yet the World keeps her eyes away from it.Why?

We cry.We scream.
Yet the World has not heard our Voices.Why?

Our Mothers are Fourth Citizens in the Country that they have created.
Yet there are no Women’s Rights.Why?

The Children of Sudan abducted,beaten, and worse.
There are no protections for them.Why?

The price of a human being that God created not to be sold brings three times the price of a goat.
Yet slavery has been abolished.Why?

The oil that God has blessed us to have urns as a great Enemy toward our lives.
Even our Government turns out the villagers.Why?

Westerners brought our grandparents Christian beliefs. Now our beliefs are attackedwith guns.
Yet the West does not defend us.Why?

Curable diseases claim 100,000 lives.
Yet our Country could buy medicine.Why?

Hunger starves big numbersof young and oldevery year.
Yet our Country has fertile landand water to grow enough food for all.Why?

The Freedom that God has given to all living creaturesis denied to us.
Why?

One thing I know: the World has forgotten us but God has not has not forgotten, not abandoned us.

We needto be free like the rest of the World.
We needthe Rights of our Mothers to appear like the morning star.We needthe streams of blood to stop, to dry up.We needthe long, long tears to be wiped from our eyes.We need to worshipwhat we believeas we want.


Agany Kur, Lost Boy Dallas, TX © 2003 Amos Kur lives in Dallas, Texas among that group of young Sudanese men known to many as "Lost Boys of Sudan." In 1987 the Sudanese Government began a genocidal war against the black pastoralist tribes in the south of Sudan. Amos was nine years old when he joined other little boys fleeing across southern Sudan toward refuge, first to Ethiopia and then to desolate northern Kenya. He came of age at Kakuma, the U.N. refugee camp where he was to live until January 2001 when he first came to Dallas from Africa. He lives today with other Lost Boys in North Dallas, and he is employed at Home Depot.
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