Saturday May 27th 2023

6:34 am

My cheeks are plump, moist and cold from tears that have been shed not so long ago; about 3 minutes ago.
It’s that time of the day again. My time of casually and randomly yet precisely getting overwhelmed with pain. Pain for my country. Pain for my beloved people. Pain for the family we were forced to leave back home. Pain for the abstract and tangible memories; somehow all of them seem to now have become intangible.

I am sorrowful. My arteries are furiously rebelling; refusing to pump my blood for a heart that beats outside its country.

My cheeks are getting ready for another round of the usual 6 am cold morning showers; endless tears.

There is not a single person that this war hasn’t affected. It has touched all Sudanese earthlings. It is still clenching on their hearts with claws that drench them empty of blood.

Immense agony in the most extreme of dimensions.

I’m put at ease by the fact that the Lord is more merciful on our country than us. I’m put at ease that He has the citizens, that still remain under a sky full of ricocheting bullets, under his eyes.

اللهم إني استودعتك موطني و أهله فاحفظه و احفظهم بعينك التي لا تنام..