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This poem is based on my imagination- fantasy but maybe a true story of some Oromo girls and women. Of course, this can be the story of so many friends of mine whose story could immensely tell the real feature of the Oromo struggle. It is the Oromo youth's story who were not separated by accident, but to survive and fight back the oppressor for their nation's cause. Moreover, the Oromo girls and women in the Oromo nation feel that no one does not understand what they are feeling but struggles on their own within. The idea for this poem comes from the observation and life of Oromo under oppression. An attempt is made to tell about one of the Oromo youths who joins the Oromo freedom fighters, but left his loved ones behind, especially his girlfriend, the sweetheart.This is the song or the lyrics his girlfriend can sing alone or cry with this powerful song when she remembers her lover that she was forcibly separated from him by injustice.
This is how an Oromo girl soliloquizes or monologues this poem silently in her soul with herself. This poem brings the message out into this girl's world and intends to reveal to others of her pains due to her boyfriend's loss.
In her monologue made in her soul's stage with no audience, she compared herself with the legendary two Oromo girls/women, whose story has descended from generation to generation as an oral tradition of Borana-Oromo, a sub-clan living in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya.
#Boorgalle was an Oromo girl who didn't marry until she was 95 but died at the age of 105 after being married for 10 years.
However, some people say, #BooraMallicha never married, and she died with her virginity-#durbummaa.
But why these two Borana Oromo girls didn't get married in time was still a mystery. And it is a well known oral tradition of Borana Oromo folklore. This girl (in my poem) images herself in them (the two legendary Borana girls). But she also hoped that one day she would meet her boyfriend and marry him at any age. She is hopeful and still dreams of her lover and waiting for him to come home with a victory.
She prepares the party and becomes the bride and with her cute groom in her dream and she weeps silently to herself but still hoped that they would meet and enjoy their love together in Oromia, liberated and with freedom, under the Oda tree one day.
With almost all of her family gone or killed by the oppressors, she has no one to speak to, but she has a wonderful and sweet memory of her boyfriend that she likes to eulogy every time and that gives her the strength to wait for her lover.
Nobody knows whether she will succeed in marrying her sweetheart or if she will get bad news from a friend of her lover when he falls while fighting against the oppressor.
This poem was written in 2014 when so many young OROMO students from several Universities left school, family, and loved ones to join the #OLA_Oromo_Liberation_Army.
Therefore, this poem must be dedicated to those fallen heroes in battle and who are still fighting the injustice in Oromia and those who are waiting for their own loved one’s and lovers to come home.Support the show
