Endowed with long legs and slender thighs
Oromos run and win on every ground that lies
Be it track or Cross Country
It’s well known ours is victory
We run very long, long distance
And we have in our blood all the endurance
We have never run out of patience
Though long it may seem, we’re gonna be winners
Just like we run and win all over the world in athletics
we should run the government in Ethiopian politics
while others are running their mouth
our heroes are taking the golden prize
The “Green Flood” on the finish line
when a bright day and our blood combine
Abebe Bikila with his barefoot
Won in Rome over those with boot
Beating Italy on the world stage for the second time
First at home and then in Rome Abe being a mime
Raised the flag high up in the sky
Reintroduced Ethiopia for the world eye
A coveted award by Jah Emperor Rastafaria
Abe was given the “Star of Ethiopia”
In his footsteps came Fatuma Robaa
Preceded by Derartu followed by daughters of Dibaba
“Our Lady of Boston” they call her so lovingly
The first African woman to win Olympic marathon exceedingly
Haile Gebreselassie smashing over 25 records
Qenenisa Bekele taking all the honors
We also have winners like Meseret Defar
Let me remind you, Oromos can win in every war
“Since we’re surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses
Let us throw everything that hinders
and the sin that so easily entangles
And let us run with perseverance
The race marked out for us”
Let’s run for Oromia
Nation of champions our biyya Tiyya!
Let’s fight the good fight
It might take many years or just a fortnight.
For more visit Run 4 Oromia’s official site.
It is a marvelous poem, which, I believe, could boost the morals of Oromo athletic heroes. It is also an accelerative poem for the incoming hundreds of Biqilaa and Biqiltuu, Daraaraa and Daraartuu, Dibabaa and Dibaabee, Roobaa and Roobee, Tolaa and Tolashii,Tufaa and Tuftuu, Burqaa and Burqituu,Qananiissaa and Qanaatuu, Fiixaa and Fiixashii and many, many others in Oromiyaa. An independent Oromiyaa will not ignore them. Though they run for Ethiopia today, Ethiopia ignored Heroes like Qananiisaa to officially invite him at the awarding ceremoney of all African athletes, held in Sheraton Hotel, Finninnee this year, on the occasion of African Athletics Championship.The Qananiissaas are always on the front line in advertising the colour of the country’s flag in every continent of the world.
Nothing ruins good intention as discovering it’s politically driven. It has the same effect a fly has to a jar of honey
. Still, am glad neither Kenenisa, nor Tirunesh, nor Derartu, nor any of the Oromo kids running for Ethiopia see things the way you to boys seem to. But i love you both & Congrats to us all!
To read my take on it, go to More than silver, more than Gold
Shoot, sorry. The address is: More than silver, more than Gold