Nil Alazrak (Blue Nile)

What is so blue about Blue Nile?

Is it the pebbles covered with green moulds or the vagina of a crocodile?

That blinds me and you,

That the river is so blue?

What is so red about Red Sea?

Is it the blood of Darfurians that flows into it and makes it red or is it the red Hibiscus tea?

That changes its color,

And pollutes its harbor?

What is so white about White Nile?

If there is not even a single smile?

And what about the pains,

That engulfs the people of Nuba Mountains?

What is so jubilant about Juba?

If they shoot and rape each other,

And prices of goods soar like an eagle,

Who then is a thinker?

A Dinka who kills a Nuer or a Nuer who Kills a Dinka?

All because blood is thicker?

(image credits: Some 2,000 Sudanese refugees flee bombing raids in Blue Nile state.UNHCR)