Kandaka: A Found Poem

Women are taking the lead in Sudan.

Young women in this revolution,
   who marched,
      staged sit-ins,
         climbed trees,
            sat on fences,
               stood atop vehicles and
                  threw gas canisters back at soldiers...

without any regard for their personal safety.

Women revolutionaries are called 'Kandaka',
the title given to powerful queens of the ancient
Sudanese kingdom of Meroe,

Who led nearly 2,000 years ago
and led their people into battle.

Kandaka,

eager to ensure the clock will not be turned back
after this revolution.

Kandaka,

there is much cause for optimism.  


05/07/2019



Poem is inspired through this article:

Women, hopeful for change, are driving Sudan's uprising
by Zeinab Badawi:
https://www.ft.com/content/8adf06c2-6c0c-11e9-9ff9-8c855179f1c4