The child of the child … Hunger is based on the shoulder of the world ✍️ Awad Allah Nawi
The child was sleeping on his lean shoulder while someone puts the whole world under his arm, not to take care of him, but to go ahead of him. His body is not the body of a child; His body is a sad poem that Mahmoud Darwish has not yet written, and an ethical scar in the front of humanity, because Nizar Qabbani said one day: “Children were born to eat … So why were the children of the poor born to die of hunger?”
This child is not a new transitional in a bulletin, it is hunger itself and has taken the form of a person.
Look at it: its ribs shine like a broken guitar, its abdominal stomach looks like the emptiness of diplomatic bags when it crosses human passages and does not wear anything with it, its hand, whose head was affected on the wall as if it was the last wall of the universe that receives the dreams of hungry.
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* Hunger is the philosophy of slow death *
Philosophers have written a lot about freedom and love, but when they spoke of hunger, they were more honest. Socrates said: “There is no freedom to be hungry.”
This child is living proof of all these words. She is not only hungry, but was stolen from her life. She slept, but she didn’t dream. The dream is a luxury that hunger and hunger do not have – as Darwish wrote – “He eats us to eat it”, but here he eats it alone without resistance.
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* Al -fasher … a city that is consumed by famine, because it eats firewood *
Hunger in El Fasher is not a destiny that descends from the sky, but a knife in the hands of human beings. A deliberate seat, a consciously lukewarm artery, a city left to test slow death.
The girl does not know these details, but she knows that her empty stomach is greater than her dreams, that her thin legs do not strengthen her pregnancy, and that sleep – this metaphysical sleep – is the only way to negotiate hunger.
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* The girl’s declaration … stronger than all the data *
The Emergency Chamber Council has published a statement saying: “There is no room for bureaucracy before famine.”
But the girl’s declaration was more informed: her body, her ribs, her sleep. No paper or signature, but a screaming silence on the face of the world: “Save me, I don’t want to transform into an international relationship or another image in the death archives.”
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* An unbearable call *
Nizar Qabbani said one day: “Arab children go to the altar and we look.” Today, no exception is an exception, this is the last examination of our humanity. This child is not only a human tragedy, it is a major scandal, an ethical crime against all humanity.
The girl was sleeping on her shoulder … but hunger did not sleep. Hunger is awake, his breath looks at his chest, waiting for the moment of the last defeat. And if that happens, it will be written under his image: “An unidentified girl is dead in the fasher.”
But it’s not unknown … It’s all firm, all of Sudan and our true face when we look at the blood mirror.
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* 🕯️ and when humanity dies … Nizar Qabbani sums it up: *
“When humanity dies
The land becomes a large cemetery,
We – the districts – become –
Just the bones walk on two feet. “”
