The End Is Here Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDE FGEDHH IJAKLM NOMPQRRL ASTAU VVWXAYWZAW

Today I am troubadourA
And I am willing to traverseB
I said to my mindC
Rest assured behindC
Nigeria my country shall groomD
I will feed with a silver spoonE
-
But when the promise scarceF
Due to the nebulous SARSG
Killing my people in the lagoonE
Even the street was doomD
Then a traverse must IH
A walk of peace had IH
-
Walking across noble climesI
The nations of my ignoble timeJ
Sprinting over fields of AccraA
Peering the bushes of maw mawK
Up to the colonels of LibyaL
And down to apartheidM
-
The sight was lame and sameN
The end had come like a swoopO
The yearning was a lightM
Even a dark age it wasP
My people have suffered agoQ
Deciding on the colonial tableR
The dining principle unstableR
And burpping the wrong aromaL
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When shall this end in horrorA
The gathering of pregnant menS
Tugging and tearing the clothT
The tablecloth of our futureA
Our dinner is eaten in the morningU
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We must end this naked messV
And spare a future dressV
Then SARS to the endW
The NASS is such an assX
For after my troubadourA
I must traverse backY
To my fatherland to endW
The end must be at homeZ
A home for the rich and the poorA
A happy end for the aged and the youngedW

Hiam Terhile
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 09/27/2021

Poet's note: In the October of 2020, a group of young, educated Nigerians took to the streets of the major cities in the country, protesting the recklessness of a police Anti-robbery squad, which aboused the rights of mostly the youth. Something that started peacefully, ended up in a blood bath involving even the military. The poet took a mental journey round the countries of Africa and sees same evil being perpetrated by the gluttonic elite few. The poet then envisaged a time when Africa we be liberated, but only through a revolution, as the Nation Assembly members were a total mess and couldn't effect the desired chamges.




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