A message from a lost soul - Esther Ayak John

Hello! Hello! Are you hearing me?!!!

Peace, A simple term but hard meanings

But some people don't face her dealins

She works in both actions and feelings

While most people try to take her peelings.

Peace, What is it?

It is brothers sharing what to eat

It is tribes assembling together to sit

or even lamps that are already lit

Stop it, all that pain we've had enough.

 

Peace, What does it mean?

means more than honest love

means more than

where is the product of all the great men we've lost.

 

Welcome back, the dove of peace

That moves from continet to Continent

Looking for a place to build it's nest

Where love has made her blessings rest.

 

At least we've heard

That we have to wake up and smell the coffee

Rather than paying the unknown Tax fee

Are at a point we aren't actually tired

But only gunshots are fired.

 

At least we've heard the ruth

Too late like ht story of Naomi and Ruth

I have to pick up my pen and book

and continue writing as i look. 

 

"Kaya Resthe"

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Esther Ayak John (21st century) South Sudan
Source: UNICEF

Note: original spelling and capitalisation preserved