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10th- 12th Grade Winner
For Darfur: Finding Love
They could not find Rudo today
Though the shadows stretch their fingers
The children raise their hands and pray
A mother, no longer, is now pure pain
Loss by trigger and the trigger:
They could not find Rudo today
The rain would long have swept away
His Aisha into the river
The children raise their hands and pray
They grab their guns, their hand grenades
Motives hidden behind a dagger
They could not find Rudo today
Splotches of fire to light the way
And light the festering anger
The Children raise their hands and pray
Only the old ones can truly say
How dark the night the night has grown
They could not find Rudo today
The children raise their hands and pray
by Asia Ayabe
11th grade, Iolani School
*Rudo- love
Aisha- life
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