| SUDAN:
Purple Eye
By
Kola Boof
I
lose my breathe and my heart
tightens; my blood
hard as chestnuts
For the
Blue Black faces of the slaves
For the Arab hate-the brown and yellow
hate
that demands world silence
I cry
for my own worth—thrown away
like sand from my Egyptian grandmother's
hand
demon
night of the horse…quickened blood
Jihad from crackling screams
I pray
for cleanliness in Sudan
The
cleanliness of our goddess…Sudan
O Blue Black angel woman
who gave birth to our land
mother goddamn.
Let us pray for Sudan.
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