You Hate Me Because I Am A Dinka Poem by Monyping Marial Buot

You call us whatever you like

you call us hyena
you call us dogs
you call us bitch

why? Why do you sing our name every day?

Yes i know it's sweet to describe us as you always do it

we are tall and smooth-skinned
feared far a wide
an aggressive people of strange speech

But what had we done?
Are we not brothers and sisters?

'Be quite like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like cloud of dew in the heat of harvest'.

You all hate us

you call us barbaric
you call us dull
you call us fools

Although we are abashed of our deed
you still push us away from you because of abdication
make you abhorrent against your brothers

you call us at whatever you like,
you sing our name

abide our apology
we beg, it's ablaze.

You all fear us, that we kill
but it's not like that
It's a wrong concept.

Hw you describe us
hate
It burn me down from my bottom

please, how you describe us hate me seriously.