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Choll Apieth
Written by Kola Boof   
    (black is beautiful)
   a Poem by Kola Boof
In the river crossing and coming through us

The egg has not drowned/Our mother’s long war --hand of Nhialic,

The blood In the river crossing
 
                 and coming through us

Behold today/ that cattle have no tongues
And that the earth is cold where Macardit tangles
in the raid of horses/ charging in our wake.

--we have lost our best son
--we, who bring the morning her spears
--we who are like birds/tired of the Crashing 
And have seen the Sky
itself
fall against our dreams
 
Choll Apeith, warriors!
In all my conversations:
the ones who are victorious...the ones
who are praying

 
Knowing that Papa Garang shall rise again
In the eye of our fists--the chant of our shouting
The Yoke of New Site/golden as sun and birth
This victory of the everborn's heartbeat...steadily rising
Be it on one foot--Garang
(be it on one foot)
Our hero of the landscape
In the river crossing and coming through us.
 
In all my conversations--
 
Come through here...river

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