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Honeymoon

(Song: Rise one blood one life)
This is my honeymoon
The day I dreamed of ngath whom I love
In the year of yang de miir
The age of calamity
Under the shade of that tree
Yes, that tree

We fell in love
Ngath has moony eyes
They sparkle like the rays of the sun in June
Our love was the tale
Told to new lovers on no sale

Her speech is not illusive
She sends a tremor down the spines of men
I perceive a bright light
Naturally charged like the skirts of fireflies
Today is a dawn to you my love
Zeal to your father dengdit

The girl denied education
The girl who refused a hundred heads of cattle
For she promised to shower me
With a river of kisses mwah mwah
My star, my queen
Wife of bany e koc theer
My wife, I, the paramount chief

I smell the aroma of my homeland
The land of ngath my mother
From which I chose ngath my lover
I hail you my homeland South Sudan
Hold your children in your arms like a chicken and her brood

You are not barren my homeland
You have great and strong children
Give them the love that I give ngath
The dose that I give ngath my love
She sat at that corner

When the sun sunk
She had dried cow dung
She had milked cows
She had cooked walwal
She sang in her sweetest voice

She is there, yes she is the one
Ngath my love
I love you like walwal
I will marry you and cook tortoise eggs for you
I swear I shall not bring you chapatti
Better colostrum for your strength
To manage carry a pot of water from the well
Your husband has come for you forever

Rise my love
Oh she wants me to sing the song I sang to her
(Song: You brighten up my life you are my shining star baby girl you are my shine
You spice up my life, spice of my life
You spice up my life
My love of my life
I feel even afar
Open my heart ajar
You are my love don't you see
Baby girl you are my shine
You spice up my life
Spice of my life
You spice up my life)

You owe me my life
As if you created it
I gave you the key to my heart
The last day a storm swept across our homestead
The day we parted
The day we have met again
It is today and forever more

We shall not part
I will hold your hand daily
Take my hand forever
Thank you for your endless love

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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Date: 10/12/2016 9:19:00 AM
Beautiful poem about your homeland Mamer!:)
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Date: 10/19/2016 8:16:00 AM
Pleasure dear. It is folk epic!

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