Nigeria Boils In Blood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAD CEFGEH IJIAKC JLMIKN CBIOPQ| For our so called leaders | A |
| It's business as usual | B |
| The executive are executing | C |
| In the confines of executive quarters | A |
| In secured environments devoid of insecurity | D |
| - | |
| The legislators are legislating | C |
| Debating the paucity of their remuneration | E |
| Or otherwise in secured environments | F |
| Whereas out there blood flows | G |
| The blood of innocent men women and children | E |
| Slaughtered daily like sacrificial lambs | H |
| - | |
| Hoodlums have all the time to behead forty three citizens | I |
| One at a time and no police comes | J |
| Maybe no fuel in their car or no bullets for their rusted guns | I |
| No military maybe they're busy running after unarmed protesters | A |
| Trying to use them for their shooting exercises | K |
| No SARS no rescue operation No thing | C |
| - | |
| When the killings are over and the hoodlums | J |
| Go their way troops drive neck speed | L |
| To nearby villages to rape and abuse | M |
| Nothing comes out of it save lame reactions | I |
| And useless regrets and the usual condolences | K |
| From authorities hiding in fortresses | N |
| - | |
| Our politicians move about as if nothing's happening | C |
| Like it's business as usual | B |
| They're already thinking of the next elections | I |
| The killings don't mean anything to them | O |
| They're scheming for | P |
| While Nigeria boils in human blood | Q |
Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 11/29/2020
Poet's note: On Saturday November 28, the terrorist organization, Boko Haram beheaded 43 farmers in a village in Borno State. The organization has been wreaking havoc on many Nigerian towns and cities yet the government behaves as if things are normal. The poem decries the killings in the country and the inability of the security agencies to curb this and government's insensitivity.
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