The Spade Man Says Hush! Poem Rhyme Scheme

Poet's note: This poem, The spade man says hush! was written in 2021, December. it is an ode to Sylvester Oromoni, the Delta state boy who died tragically. This poem brings to light the matter of bullying and physical abuse and how the bullied feels. the bullied is a normal human being who has great dreams and aspirations, much expecations from friends, and the world at large, but the spade man, the one who digs his death plans great mischief. The determination of the bullied is recognised in the poem, despite this, the bullied still dies, but wishes that there was another chance whereby he would teach the spade man a lesson and this time, it would be the spade man that dies. The spade man says hush! relates the pain of people who have or are being bullied, physically abused, assulted and so on and how the world adresses it.

They say that the old die at least that is what I was told	A
When I was young	B
Before I grew old	A
I told mama I would make her proud	C
I told papa I would touch the clouds	D
I had my drafts	E
They had their plans	F
In warm embrace and streaming tears	G
they released me into the world	H
With as much blessings as their hand could conceive	I
I wish they only told me early enough	J
that the spade man would come for me	K
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In this world I was released into	L
The spade man taught me to bear pain	M
The spade man taught me to love fear	N
The spade man told me to hush	O
As long as the sun rose and fell	P
My story I could not tell	P
Only if I knew	L
if time was not too fast	Q
If date not unpredictable	R
If chance not chanced	Q
I would have seen the spade man digging	S
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The spade man told me to hush	O
I said no	T
He or maybe she told me to love fear	N
My body though weak put a pound of strength	U
I thought with it I could keep the spade man away	V
He told me to bear pain	M
How could I at understand such game	W
They say you didn't speak up	X
But I did	Q
Ask the sun and the moon they knew my plight	Q
Nature may even tell it better	Y
I fought I tried I was just not strong enough	J
I never knew the young also die	Q
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This time the sun rose	Z
I did not see it fall my story I could not tell	P
My shrivelled legs failed	Q
My heart ached	Q
My face bruised	Q
My joints pained	Q
My dreams were gone	A2
My drafts were torn	B2
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Who shall touch the clouds for papa	C2
Who shall make mama proud	Q
On whom shall I bestow this this enormous task I thought I could bear	D2
Say farewell to my family they've lost a favourite child	Q
Send my greetings to the Delta people they've lost a son	E2
Send more greetings to the south their lush soil has swallowed their own	F2
Send a kiss to Nigeria one from her loins departs	G2
Send the world a letter of my demise make sure you write	Q
it is one of those cases of an abused child maybe she will handle it seriously this time	H2
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And now as I slumber an eternal one	E2
I wish I could reach out to that spade man called death	I2
I would strangle him with my bare hands	J2
With the innocency of an infant	Q
I would push him down into the pit he digs	K2
With the frailty of a child	Q
I would cover you up with soil and stones	L2
Ashes and dead flowers	M2
With tears in my eyes	N2
I will confess	O2
I cannot hush death I cannot hush	O

Exceedyn Godspower Chike

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