The Heavy Load Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DCDCC EFEFC GHGHC IJIJC KLKLC CMCMC NCNCC OPOQC RSRSCDo you know of a part in yourself | A |
That steers the person of your soul | B |
It stands like an electronic bookself | A |
Which stores your books and goal | B |
For a lot does happen in the head | C |
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The eyes that beam in the dark | D |
Sometimes they turn to be red | C |
Their hot water of grief is a mark | D |
When they cry and feel the dread | C |
Aren't they the part of the head | C |
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The ears that listen to catch the noise | E |
All they hear are the songs of fear | F |
In fact when they open and poise | E |
To see if there is any hope to cheer | F |
Aren't they the children of the head | C |
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The nose that's used to feel good scent | G |
Has just become the omen of gloom | H |
Of what the nostrils bear and lament | G |
And awaits the very day of its doom | H |
Isn't the nose a neighbour in the head | C |
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Of the mouth that is used to chant joy | I |
And sings in the moment of delight | J |
Is now the weapon that waits to destroy | I |
The joy in the head and turns to woe plight | J |
Isn't the mouth the main gate of the head | C |
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The brain has lost its right to think | K |
For it can't beer the weight of the load | L |
And the words in it now off and sink | K |
And has become for pain an abode | L |
Isn't the brain the chief of the head | C |
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These pains are too much for the head | C |
Tell me where to buy ice block I need cold | M |
Maybe it can cool the heat in the head | C |
Who to tell the story that's yet untold | M |
Who will lift the burden of the head | C |
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Can't I just be bold and cut it off once | N |
And get rid of the lots that run in the head | C |
For it has already died in cold silence | N |
Or even burn the thing off and rest instead | C |
Perhaps I can do without the sick head | C |
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How I wish the end just comes fast | O |
To carry it to the journey of the unknown | P |
How long will the pain even take to last | O |
And free it from the sense of the mourn | Q |
Isn't the real self reside only in the head | C |
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But I will wait for the best to come | R |
And pray to the Lord of the worlds | S |
To give it the rest coz it needs some | R |
And take it to its hopeful dreamworlds | S |
Then make me the lord of the head | C |
Kehinde Bashir Akinola
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 04/14/2023
Poet's note: This is about the predicament of a lone, depressed soul
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