We can run away from bombs, but not from hunger.” Sudan‘s refugees in South Sudan, report of Amnestyus.org 2012
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I wrote this back in the 80s in response to an essay on the “black days” by someone from the Sudan.
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Have you read about them –
“Black Days” in the Sudan?
They are hunger-and-thirst days
When the supply of water –
One liter per person for two weeks
. . . is gone
When their food, one meal a day
For fourteen days
. . . is gone,
and the waiting and wasting begins –
four, five, fifteen days
Until more food and water
then Black Days again –
They are days of laying-in.
Conserving energy.
Some survive.
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If you want and are able, you can make a donation to the Fill the Cup of the World Food Programme. They say $1 fills four cups.
© 2012, poem, Jamie Dedes, All rights reserved
Photo credit ~ mother and malnurished child, Darfur, taken by USAID and in the public domain
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