Season Of Madness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFG HIJKLMMMNOPJQRFST UVHWVVVXYZNA2B2JV| The strong man always refuted | A |
| Romancing with his enemies | B |
| To avoid being axed for anti party activities | B |
| His mouth had ran like tap | C |
| In denial of speculations he was on the move | D |
| I can't join a failed party he said again and again | E |
| Even a few days to his D day | F |
| Until the cat was let out of the bag | G |
| - | |
| But the strong man never wanted | H |
| To leave the house in order | I |
| He sowed the seed of confusion | J |
| And dragged the people like an unwilling horse | K |
| To make his agenda altruistic | L |
| I'm doing it for the east | M |
| The party has been unjust to the east | M |
| I'd stay if they zone the Presidency to the east | M |
| If not the east would leave | N |
| I'm not interested in the Presidency | O |
| I'll retire from politics come | P |
| I'm not a politician | J |
| I'll be President if God says | Q |
| Bla bla bla bla bla | R |
| Inconsistencies everyday | F |
| Confusion in high and low places | S |
| Deliberately created for maximum effect | T |
| - | |
| The drama continues to unfold | U |
| And like a demon the strong man revels | V |
| In the furor he generated | H |
| And like demented fools we beat about | W |
| Like mad men possessed by the spirit of agwu nsi | V |
| We fall one over another in a frenzy | V |
| To overdo one another in base acts of sycophancy | V |
| No wonder it's said by the Yoruba | X |
| He the gods want to destroy | Y |
| They first make mad | Z |
| Over here we believe | N |
| The spirit of madness is quite strong | A2 |
| And overbearing in the harmattan | B2 |
| And this is the season | J |
| The season of madness | V |
Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 11/22/2020
Poet's note: A governor of a southeast state decamped from the PDP to the ruling APC. Though carpet crossing is a common feature in Nigerian politics, but this one is generating controversy because the man's reason isn't convincing at all. The man happens to be from my state and is really causing a lot confusion and heating up the polity because he expects people to follow his steps. But many are not interested in following him. The poem examines the inconsistencies in his utterances and action and the behaviour of his political appointees who are bending over to defend the governor's action.
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