Is There A Safe Place? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGHIJJ KKLJMNO PQDR SBITBIUIJIPTP VJWJXJ YIJJZJNA2SA2B2MA2C2J VD2JA2A2JE2J JWJF2G2H2JH2XKH2 I2VJSFVJXFFJ2I2JI come from the Western part | A |
Of West Africa | B |
A lover of the East | C |
Forbidden to mingle | D |
With the daughters | E |
Of the kings of the East | C |
Should I cross the boundaries | F |
That's where things go South | G |
I grew up in the North | H |
Where we're used to | I |
Being Hot Hurt | J |
Yet never Hault | J |
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I think my nation is awesome | K |
Quote that Awesome | K |
At getting me lost in thoughts | L |
The economy and modus operandi | J |
Makes me go ballistic | M |
But don't get me wrong | N |
Home is where the heart lives | O |
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They say | P |
The world is a book | Q |
Those who do not travel | D |
Only read one page | R |
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To everyone who has intentions | S |
Or exploitations of living in diaspora | B |
Uhh I salute you | I |
For reasons of Business | T |
Pleasure Exposure Etcetera | B |
I pray for you | I |
And I wish God's grace | U |
Though I cannot advice you | I |
To be afraid | J |
But I'd like to alert you | I |
To be watchful and pray | P |
For different shades of darkness | T |
Has always objectified man as prey | P |
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To a Wise and Goodman | V |
The whole earth is his Fatherland | J |
So does serving or loving | W |
My motherland require me | J |
To detest or hate my father | X |
For service or land | J |
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Two captains can't run a ship | Y |
True | I |
Well let's not forget that | J |
Water differs from land | J |
Nevertheless | Z |
If you were thinking clearly | J |
What went wrong | N |
Was your perspective | A2 |
For the wrong reasons | S |
Some turned defensive | A2 |
In the absence of attack | B2 |
Became pessimistic | M |
Negatively argumentative | A2 |
Ambassadors of conflicts | C2 |
Deforming conformity | J |
Mis respresenting the definition | V |
Of Humanity and frustrating the peace | D2 |
Of those who cherish Unity | J |
Becoming aggressive | A2 |
Forcing us to play defensive | A2 |
Even without a strategy | J |
The only way this ends | E2 |
Is obviously in tragedy | J |
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Can't you see | J |
The violence is threatening | W |
The very peace that we need | J |
Don't you hear | F2 |
Heartbeats of joy | G2 |
Took a different tempo | H2 |
Now hearts beat heavy | J |
Because It's hard to let go | H2 |
How long shall we suffer | X |
From the pandemonium | K |
Of this racial tornado | H2 |
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Is there anywhere safe | I2 |
On the planet for an African | V |
If nations seize to unite | J |
What's United nations | S |
If I'm not free to go overseas | F |
Freedom needs new definition | V |
Apparently | J |
I've got dreams larger | X |
Than my continent's boundaries | F |
But I fear that crossing the boundaries | F |
Could turn my dreams into a nightmares | J2 |
Is there anywhere safe | I2 |
For an African immigrant | J |
Ajiboye Temitopelodobaba
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