BY ALEM HAILU
As the noted and sagacious
Sudanese Journalist
Sohaile Abdulahi
Christened Him
“The Egyptian white dog”
In whose mind greed
Jealousy and conceit made
Ever-expanding heavy fog,
Rabid, opts to jog
From this to that hog
In a frantic bid Ethiopia’s
Renaissance dam down to bog
Cognizant “Release Barban &
Crucify Jesus”
Specially in some quarters—
Slave masters, colonizers
Globalizers, devil worshipers—
Is a vogue.
“Out Heroding Herod”
As runs the adage
Egypt is their mirror image.
Egyptians can
Double cross credulous Sudan
By locking them with Ethiopia
In proxy war,
A friction, Ethiopia’s fight
Against poverty that could bar,
While on Sudan’s land seeking
A foothold Halaib
And Shalateen Triangle
And even far,
Bringing a diplomatic wit
From Egypt’s time-old
History’s toolkit.
A diplomatic wit
At times
In the eyes of
The justice-blind or
The less-discerning
That affords
A diplomatic hit.
Also in a proxy war
Turning every Sudan’s youth
A cannon fodder
Egypt could claim
Sudan’s lands further,
Though Egypt’s gluttony
Many find funny.
Chasing out the white dog
Between its legs its tail
Sudanese must not fail
Also they must not fail
To give a lesson
To so cold ministers,
Generals that don’t
Bat an eye own
Country to sell.
The Ethiopian Herald March 10/2021
