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    This poem describes a man's deep sorrow and lamentation. It is a night where everyone else is sleeping behind closed doors as thunder and rain roar outside. The man's wailing is so loud that others think it is a lion. The poem continues with metaphors comparing the man's emotional and physical pain to injuries that animals and men sustain - like a vulture with an injured shoulder or a horse without its spine. It depicts the man as being cut off from the world and in constant grief, like a small girl who has lost her mother or a man who sees water but remains thirsty.

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    This poem describes a man's deep sorrow and lamentation. It is a night where everyone else is sleeping behind closed doors as thunder and rain roar outside. The man's wailing is so loud that others think it is a lion. The poem continues with metaphors comparing the man's emotional and physical pain to injuries that animals and men sustain - like a vulture with an injured shoulder or a horse without its spine. It depicts the man as being cut off from the world and in constant grief, like a small girl who has lost her mother or a man who sees water but remains thirsty.

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    Somalia Poetry Raage Ugaas Night Has Fallen

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    This poem describes a man's deep sorrow and lamentation. It is a night where everyone else is sleeping behind closed doors as thunder and rain roar outside. The man's wailing is so loud that others think it is a lion. The poem continues with metaphors comparing the man's emotional and physical pain to injuries that animals and men sustain - like a vulture with an injured shoulder or a horse without its spine. It depicts the man as being cut off from the world and in constant grief, like a small girl who has lost her mother or a man who sees water but remains thirsty.

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    Raage Ugaas
    Alleyl Dumay
    Alleyl dumay albaabbadoo xiran, uunku wada seexday
    Onkod yeedhay uugaamo roob, alif banaadiiq ah
    Iihdayda bixi baa libaax, iman la moodaaye
    Raggase adhaxdiyo ooftu waa, udub dhexaadkiiye
    Labadii wax laga eegi jirey, waan ka awdnahaye
    Halkaan aa ka leeyahay Ilaah, keliya uun baa og
    Aboodigu ma lalo garab hadduu, iin ku leeyahaye
    Orod uma hollado oglihii, adhaxda beelaaye
    Ma aarsado il iyo oof ninkii, iimi kaga taale
    Aroos uma galbado nimuu, wadnaha arami jiifaaye
    Geeluba kolkuu oomo waa, olol badnaadaaye
    Sidii inan yar oo hooyadeed, aakhiro u hoyatay
    Oo aabbeheed aqal mid kale, meel illin ah seexshey
    Hadba waxaan la urugoonayaa, uur-ku-taallada e
    Ninkii ooridiisii rag kale, loo igdhaan ahaye
    Ninka ilo biyo leh soo arkoo, oomman baan ahaye
    Nin ugaas walaalkiis yahoo, eeday baan ahaye
    Af-dhabaandhow aayar ninkaa, aammusaan ahaye

    Raage Ugaas from Shire Jaamac Axmed, Gabayo, Maahmaah iyo Sheekooyin Yaryar. (Mogadishu: The National
    Printers); translation Martin Orwin

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    Raage Ugaas
    Night Has Fallen
    Night had fallen and behind closed doors everyone was sleeping
    Thunder called out with a clamour of rain like shots from a thousand rifles
    So was my wailing heard that they thought it a lion approaching
    For men the spine and ribsides are the body's central support
    I am shut away now from the eyes through which I used to see
    Only God knows the source of my lamentations
    The vulture with an injury to his shoulder cannot fly
    The horse who has lost his spine cannot gallop
    The man injured in eye and ribs cannot seek revenge
    A man whose heart aches cannot take a bride home
    When the camels are thirsty their outcries increase
    Like a small girl whose mother now lives in the hereafter
    Whose father has brought another woman to sleep in the aqal*
    I grieve constantly from the sorrow deep in my belly
    I'm the man whose fiance has been given to another
    I'm the man who sees springs but whose thirst remains unquenched
    I'm the man whose brother is clan leader and yet is accused
    I am that silent man who sits, slowly patting his mouth again and again

    * An aqal is a nomadic hut used by the Somalis.

    Raage Ugaas from Shire Jaamac Axmed, Gabayo, Maahmaah iyo Sheekooyin Yaryar. (Mogadishu: The National
    Printers); translation Martin Orwin

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