Life On A Wheel Chair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAAAFFAGF AAAHFEHIDAFJDD KAADDLMNDDOAOAFPP LFAAFQF FRAALSAAFRQFTAAALA| Are some people born cursed | A |
| Are some people born | B |
| Halfway incomplete and worthless | C |
| I am an unfinished painting | D |
| A painting that is seen | E |
| And scourned | A |
| A painting that does not | A |
| Represent beauty | A |
| A painting that represents | F |
| Hideousness | F |
| A painting whose artist | A |
| Is misfortune | G |
| You can see his name engraved on my legs | F |
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| How can a man who can't stand | A |
| On his own two feet | A |
| Stand tall and proud | A |
| How can he look useful | H |
| When his legs are useless | F |
| I am seen as a defective machine | E |
| A machine that is incapable | H |
| Of fulfilling any task | I |
| A prototype of a human being | D |
| A disadvantaged man placed | A |
| In a disadvantaged place | F |
| A man physically designed to be poor | J |
| A man who can never earn a living | D |
| A man whose life is not worth living | D |
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| I have one blessing in life | K |
| A friend who never leaves my side | A |
| A truly noble man who lacks pride | A |
| A friend proud to walk with and incomplete being | D |
| A friend who calls me the greatest thing | D |
| A friend who calls me brother | L |
| He is my strength | M |
| Even though he is weak as well | N |
| He is dying | D |
| But he wants me to keep living | D |
| His blood screams in pain | O |
| I pray that one day | A |
| His leukaemia is slain | O |
| He would leave his death bed | A |
| For me to rest in peace | F |
| This man should not know death | P |
| I am the one who should be on his last breath | P |
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| A crippled man can't work forever | L |
| Even in all my endeavours | F |
| They saw me as a liability | A |
| I am dead weight | A |
| A man with no purpose | F |
| A crippled man | Q |
| Whose life is worthless | F |
| - | |
| My life was coming to a close | F |
| When the leukemia took | R |
| What mattered most | A |
| The ground wailed for me | A |
| Knowing that my brother | L |
| Will return to the soil | S |
| I remember his first words to me | A |
| ''Paul keep on living '' he said | A |
| Now I stare at his lifeless corpse | F |
| Wishing it was me who death took | R |
| I am just a crippled man | Q |
| Nothing but broken bones | F |
| Why should I live when | T |
| The one who kept me alive is dead | A |
| Why should I stay in a world | A |
| With no love for the crippled | A |
| Without my brother | L |
| I am truly incomplete | A |
Gareth Ntungwerisho
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