Jesus At The Door In Dreadlocks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DEFGH IJKC ILMINO PQRSI TUV DWMSE| days after the wrangle | A |
| we did not taste each other's words | B |
| on the staircase a helpless woman gasps on a stretcher | C |
| that was the th body going | D |
| - | |
| the opponent coughed reeling | D |
| to my door | E |
| her heart racing then a pause | F |
| to make sure it was my face | G |
| then slowing down slowing down | H |
| - | |
| Please believe me when I say I love you | I |
| Imagining the strangeness and | J |
| how the sun was dim that morning I | K |
| found it hard to believe her | C |
| - | |
| Please believe me when I say I love you | I |
| To the outgoing bodies | L |
| To that feverish boy who can not hear me | M |
| I gift Israel's relentless faith your way to | I |
| those who can not hope any longer in | N |
| the hoping she sang sweeping back her footprints | O |
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| That evening she returned to my door geared | P |
| in a nose mask thick velvet gloves | Q |
| not meeting the nice pile of shoes | R |
| in my next neighbor's balcony she said | S |
| Please believe me when I say I love you | I |
| - | |
| and that was the first time I had heard her in a faint voice | T |
| Reimagining the strangeness how | U |
| the sun was spearing down that night | V |
| - | |
| I believed her feeling | D |
| an old beginning a new end | W |
| wanting to believe her wholly | M |
| I touched her dingy dread | S |
| it was Jesus at the door | E |
Gabriel Awuah Mainoo
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