We Had Him Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD AEF GGH IJ KHLH MH AN N HO| Beloveds now we know that we know nothing | A |
| Now that our bright and shining star can slip away from our fingertips like a puff of summer wind | B |
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| Without notice our dear love can escape our doting embrace | C |
| Sing our songs among the stars and and walk our dances across the face of the moon | D |
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| In the instant we learn that Michael is gone we know nothing | A |
| No clocks can tell our time and no oceans can rush our tides | E |
| With the abrupt absence of our treasure | F |
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| Though we our many each of us is achingly alone | G |
| Piercingly alone | G |
| Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him | H |
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| He came to us from the Creator trailing creativity in abundance | I |
| Despite the anguish of life he was sheathed in mother love and family love and survived and did more than that | J |
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| He thrived with passion and compassion humor and style | K |
| We had him | H |
| Whether we knew who he was or did not know he was ours and we were his | L |
| We had him | H |
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| Beautiful delighting our eyes | M |
| He raked his hat slant over his brow and took a pose on his toes for all of us and we laughed and stomped our feet for him | H |
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| We were enchanted with his passion because he held nothing | A |
| He gave us all he had been given | N |
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| Today in Tokyo beneath the Eiffel Tower in Ghana's Blackstar Square in Johannesburg in Pittsburgh in Birmingham Alabama and Birmingham England we are missing Michael Jackson | N |
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| But we do know that we had him | H |
| And we are the world | O |
Maya Angelou
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