The End Is Here Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDE FGEDHH IJAKLM NOMPQRRL ASTAU VVWXAYWZAWToday I am troubadour | A |
And I am willing to traverse | B |
I said to my mind | C |
Rest assured behind | C |
Nigeria my country shall groom | D |
I will feed with a silver spoon | E |
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But when the promise scarce | F |
Due to the nebulous SARS | G |
Killing my people in the lagoon | E |
Even the street was doom | D |
Then a traverse must I | H |
A walk of peace had I | H |
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Walking across noble climes | I |
The nations of my ignoble time | J |
Sprinting over fields of Accra | A |
Peering the bushes of maw maw | K |
Up to the colonels of Libya | L |
And down to apartheid | M |
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The sight was lame and same | N |
The end had come like a swoop | O |
The yearning was a light | M |
Even a dark age it was | P |
My people have suffered ago | Q |
Deciding on the colonial table | R |
The dining principle unstable | R |
And burpping the wrong aroma | L |
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When shall this end in horror | A |
The gathering of pregnant men | S |
Tugging and tearing the cloth | T |
The tablecloth of our future | A |
Our dinner is eaten in the morning | U |
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We must end this naked mess | V |
And spare a future dress | V |
Then SARS to the end | W |
The NASS is such an ass | X |
For after my troubadour | A |
I must traverse back | Y |
To my fatherland to end | W |
The end must be at home | Z |
A home for the rich and the poor | A |
A happy end for the aged and the younged | W |
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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