Not Ours To Keep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEF GHIGB HJKLMN OPQRE SRTGU VWXNBYA RHZA2D BRB2GC2ZD2E2| Not Ours to Keep | A |
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| None of us live alone | B |
| not even in exile | C |
| We wander like leaves torn from branches | D |
| never solitary always drifting | E |
| through a world that does not belong to us | F |
| - | |
| My mind is a river | G |
| choked with weeds of memory | H |
| clouded by the stories of too many others | I |
| we all flow together | G |
| because none of us can survive alone | B |
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| Even the tree | H |
| its roots are buried in foreign soil | J |
| clings to its leaves | K |
| whispers carried by the wind | L |
| Without them it would be stripped bare | M |
| forgotten unnoticed | N |
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| Look at the sky | O |
| empty without its stars | P |
| silent without the voices of the moon | Q |
| a canvas of blue | R |
| without any color or meaning | E |
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| Storms come and go | S |
| tearing apart everything we try to hold on to | R |
| but in the end the wind always dies down | T |
| and we find our way back to each other | G |
| our voices becoming a song again | U |
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| Love and hatred live side by side | V |
| changing shape | W |
| sometimes a helping hand | X |
| sometimes a closed fist | N |
| Too much love for ourselves alone | B |
| builds walls and starts wars | Y |
| this world was never ours to keep | A |
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| I need you | R |
| and you need me | H |
| Together we can make something beautiful | Z |
| out of what s left | A2 |
| something more than our broken pieces | D |
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| My thoughts are not mine alone | B |
| They are yours too | R |
| When we are one | B2 |
| we can clap together | G |
| not in joy | C2 |
| but in survival | Z |
| in hope | D2 |
| in the chorus of the displaced | E2 |
Mohammed Arshad Amin
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