On October 1, 212 at 7:35AM, I woke up after a heavy dream
stirred my mind, the dream begun when I asked a person who I had lived with in
Ethiopia twenty three years ago. I asked in the dream, what do you think of the
suffering that I have had in Fignudo compare to the rest of the boys in our
platoon?
Little bit about this guy. He was older than everyone else
in the platoon. He was a guy that
mistreated me. He used to beat me, insulted me while favoring everyone else.
This person refused to answer my question. So I then said to
myself, “whoever think supreme (God) doesn’t help……then I said, thank God for
helping me.
After I thank God, I heard someone singing a song in Dinka (South
Sudanese language). It goes like this…..
Yin ca leech we juachdit de Yijep.
We dhia, ne ke ci we gam, bi we
luak war theer.
We ca leech ne ke ci we gam, bi we
luak war theer.
We ca leech we dhia, we dhia.
English translation:
I praised all of you the multitude
of Egypt.All of you for you repented, and being saved from the beginning.
I praised all of you for repenting, and being saved from the beginning.
All of you, I praised, all of you, I praised.
Then I started to fade into nothing. I could not feel my
body but I know I was there. I started to fly and came across two people fighting.
I told them to stop fighting but they do not listen. So I said something, (which
I don’t remember) and the two guys turned into trees. I thought for a moment. I did not like seeing
these men as trees. So I said something again (which I don’t remember). The
guys turned into human beings but the trees’ images of themselves remained
standing and visible to my eyes and their eyes too.
These two guys left and walked away. They run into other two guys on the way. They told these two guys met not to eat the trees’ images of them. They guys asked, why? They responded, if you do eat the trees, you will turn into trees. So the guys listened and never eat trees’ images.
These two guys left and walked away. They run into other two guys on the way. They told these two guys met not to eat the trees’ images of them. They guys asked, why? They responded, if you do eat the trees, you will turn into trees. So the guys listened and never eat trees’ images.
I continue flying above in the sky. I met other flying people.
We began commanding windstorm, heavy smoke to destroy the earth and the people.
The windstorm and heavy smoke dropped people westward and I and other flying
people faded into the eye of the windstorm eastward.
Then I came across three women who looked familiar to me. One
woman was so familiar. She was lying
outside to my right and other two women were lying inside what appeared as a
house made of thatched grass and muddy wall to my left hand side. The woman
lying outside to my right hand side asked me. Is that you Yuot Tor? I got
puzzled and frightened for she looked like my grandmother who died 1991 back
home in South Sudan. I thought for a moment. I told myself that I am not going
to lie. So I said, yes grandma. It is me. She laughed and raised her head and
said, tell them, get my 14…… what she said was not clear to me. So I went and
stood in the front of what appeared as a house. The other two ladies raised
their heads and looked at me trying to get to know me. They said, “What does
she say?” I said, she said she is hungry and I began to disappear from their
eyes.
Little bit about my grandma….
She and I were very close when she was alive. She was the
one who gave me the name Yuot Tor when I was born. She was blind when she died
and couldn’t see people.
Then, I came face-to-face with my uncle David Chol Deng who
recognized me and I recognized him. He wore black pants and white shirts. He
gave me a hug and I hug him back. But, I could not feel any physical body. He
immediately stepped back and said, “I got your letter. I accepted your
counsel.”
Just little bid of background on my uncle......
He was a soldier and
got killed in 1987 during the civil war in South Sudan. I also remembered that
I wrote to my parents in 1996 or 1997 asking them about my uncle whereabouts. As far as to the content of the letter, I
don’t remember the specificity of what I wrote.
My uncle then told me about how he how went to secondary
school. He asked me about what I was doing. I said with excitement that I was
doing two PhDs, I added, I am in debt. He laughed and said, ‘you are never in
debt.’ He also asked me what happened to
my teeth. I told him, I had some put in.
Of course, when my uncle left home in 1983, he knew that I was missing teeth in
my mouth.
He then asked me
about Ms. Clinton and the guy named Obama. I told him, Ms. Clinton married. She
ran in 2008 and lost to Obama. I added
he is now running for reelection. I also said South Sudan is now independent.
We are now a different country. And I
heard the same song again being sung.
Yin ca leech we juachdit de Yijep.
We dhia, ne ke ci we gam, bi we
luak war theer.
We ca leech ne ke ci we gam, bi we
luak war theer.
We ca leech we dhia, we dhia.
The song faded it way very slowly. I felt very
vibrant and did not want to let go the song but I wake up……
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