I can’t Conceive my life without Dignity

Author: Bushara Ahmed Gumaa, President of Darfur’s Friends Association (DFA) / July 8th, 2005
E-Mail: darfurs_friends@yahoo.es

Every child has the right to dream:
I’ll be a fireman, I’ll be a nurse,
a lawyer, a judge, a doctor, a sailor…
Everybody has the right to love and
everybody has the right to be loved.

Everybody has the right to live,
everybody has the right to believe,
but nobody has the right to kill kids,
to commit Genocide, killing youths
and elders like the autumn leaves.

I do believe in justice, equality and
F R E E D O M.
Freedom of expression revives
the democracy and refreshes, like sea breeze.
But the tyrant Omar Al-Bashir must
leaves right now! Like summer, so as to
receive the spring of real democracy.
And only then we’ll enjoy the breeze and smile
to the spring, like flowers and trees.

I love the nature: animals, birds, trees…
I love peaceful people and peace,
I love all the human beings, except
the dictators, the tyrants, the despots, the racists,
the cowards and the cowardice.

I want all the nations to be declared
a NO-DICTATORS ZONE.
I want to see all the nations without
misery, without poverty and without
crimes against the humanity.

You and me should help all poor people:
Wipe their tears, alleviate their pains and griefs.
You and me should help child-soldiers:
give them books, chewing gums
and take away their guns.
Tell them tales and let them play all the day.

You and me should help innocent prisoners:
Defend their case, independently of their race.
Call for a fair trail and justice for them. Nevertheless,
if the laws of the country don’t respect the basic human rights, then don’t respect the laws, use the force: destroy the jail, break the chains and set them FRE E, FREE, FREE…

We should unite our voices and our forces
to fight against the ignorance, against the injustice,
against whole dictatorships and let’s have
only one human citizenship.

Let Darfur be the last Genocide and the last atrocities
that might take place on the Earth.
And let’s should very loud: NEVER AGAIN,
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER…

Let the solidarity be the engine of our society
and let’s act like animals: DO NOT HATE.
Let all the human colors unite, like those in the rainbow,
let education and tolerance replace the racism and
all sorts of discriminations. And let all the nations
convert into one nation.

I’m a peaceful man but I’m not a submissive.
I swore thrice in the name of Almighty Allah that
I shall never kneel down to the dictator Omar Al-Bashir*.
And I’ll never give up, I’ll fight day and night for our rights.
I know that I’m risking my life and I deserve to live,
but I can’t conceive my life without D I G N I T Y.

 

* On April 2nd, 2005. The dictator Omar Al-Bashir said: “I swear thrice in the name of Almighty Allah that I shall never hand over any Sudanese national to a foreign court” (he meant that he’ll never hand over any of the suspects of the Darfur’s atrocities to the International Criminal Court (ICC), even though The UN Security Council Resolution 1593 forces him to do so) .
In the same day, I swore not to kneel down to the dictator and I’ll never give up fighting meanwhile the tyrant still in power.

You can read more poems and Articles of the author at: http://www.sudana.net and http://www.yazol.net

 

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