A Poem For My Country. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFF FFGFHIFJ KLFMFFHNHFHK OFFFAPHDHHQF| That island that went into oblivion | A |
| With immunization success | B |
| Citizens no longer die young | C |
| Except the careless mothers in labor | D |
| And sometimes their political unborn babies | E |
| As for Ebola and small pox | F |
| How do you expect funds from NGO's | F |
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| Citizens stand in the que to welcome refugees | F |
| Because they have got used to resettlement themselves | F |
| Just yesterday Just the other day | G |
| The court awarded an investor four populated villages | F |
| For industrial Nuclear and missile development | H |
| That would reduce the numbers of those agitating for breath | I |
| Only for survivors to beg on streets and fill the potholes | F |
| That is if some national parks can't accommodate them | J |
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| I sing about my country | K |
| Where a railway line is a myth | L |
| And floods make our cars fly like bombardiers | F |
| Have you heard of that Regional referral hospital | M |
| I mean whose pharmacy is a distance outside gates | F |
| And its lovingly operated by the same doctor like Jesus | F |
| Trying a Zacharia the tax collector or Judas isacariot | H |
| Have you heard of that public university or school | N |
| Whose tuition is fit to fund go green campaigns in Kalahari desert | H |
| Yet its lecturers are still soaked in bark cloth coats and suits | F |
| So long as the all political activities are over funded | H |
| That's my country | K |
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| Have you heard of an engineer who ate kilometers of tarmac | O |
| An official who bought a pen at million dollars | F |
| Where a multi billion project can't see another Christmas | F |
| A brother Jero whose miracles raise the dead no retakes and world cup trophies | F |
| Have you seen a blood tie as a job qualification | A |
| If not you have not been home | P |
| Where the ghetto has been lighted for our eyes to cast the ballot | H |
| Who knows what will happen after | D |
| The last king of the bachwezi will still stand | H |
| As the grandsons and daughters will be persecuted | H |
| For not only being enemies of progress and kingdom | Q |
| But kissing the frogs that once ruled the oceans | F |
Bamukunda Hillary
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