Strange Land, Nigeria Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKJLMDC NEOPGQRS OTJUVTEW

Can a strong man's houseA
Be plundered unless he's bound firstB
Can a dog eat the boneC
That hangs on its neckD
Can a fish drownE
In the water in which it swimsF
Can a bird be overwhelmedG
By the breeze on which it soarsH
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Yet here in our landI
A strong man wasn't only boundJ
His house devastated and demolishedK
The strong man was boundJ
Hand and foot and bundled offL
We've seen the dog eat upM
The very bone hanging on its neckD
It munched it like biscuit boneC
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And sat waiting for moreN
Here we've seen too a fish drownE
In its own water dead and bloatedO
Like bread cast on the waters that ought to give it lifeP
The birth has been overwhelmedG
By the very breeze it soared onQ
We live in a strange land in strange timesR
Where nought's impossibleS
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Police men are abductedO
By the very criminals they're paid to eliminateT
To rub salt into the festering woundJ
The brigands demand for a ransomU
A hundred million to let their quarry goV
And like toothless bull dogs we waitT
We pray for a miracle for God to come downE
And save our effeminate menW

Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 11/21/2020

Poet's note: Sometime last week a team of police men on the way from Kaduna to Abuja the seat of power were kidnapped by some armed men who demanded a hundred million naira ransom. The poem examines the problem with an Igbo proverb which states a dog cannot eat the bone hanging on its neck. The police are to deal with the criminals. Instead the criminals are dealing with the police. The authorities seem to care less or seem to be helpless.




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