In March 2017, I got a phone call from my mother while in school, she told me that the war had come to our village and to rush home.

There were so many people – all were fleeing in different directions. I had no idea where my mother was. When I came here, I was all alone.”

This is my poem.

War war war

The great enemy in South Sudan

Our houses, properties destroyed

Our mothers killed

Mothers and sisters raped.

We know war is not the solution

Let’s sit down and talk to leaders

And bring peace to our nation, South Sudan.