War At Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHBGIJKLMNOPQG RGPGSTUVWXYGEEEZA2B2 C2D2E2| Did anyone cheat death on behalf of the world | A |
| Whites died Blacks didn't survive either | B |
| The rich men abandoned their wealth | C |
| Unwillingly yet not given a choice | D |
| The poor ones still had no chance of looting | E |
| Poverty didn't mean immunity I wasn't immune | F |
| This is the tale of a disheartening journey | G |
| One that starts with as little as a cough | H |
| And ended if unlucky about a week later | B |
| Not better not same rather dead in a mass cemetery | G |
| We were warned to wash our hands | I |
| But as much as we did we couldn't wash away the vulnerability engraved in our palms | J |
| We wore nose masks but they didn't mask our fears | K |
| Leaders emerged from all works of life | L |
| Armoured with positivity wearing lipsticks of optimism | M |
| Either way all I saw was a battle in their eyes | N |
| Fighting off bitterness displaying the last bit of resilience in their depleted souls | O |
| All I heard was the nothing can be done beating of their hearts | P |
| The kind of panic you feel when a gun is pointed to your brain | Q |
| All I felt was uncertainty suffocating the little life left in a body I believed was healthy | G |
| Familiarity declining into social distancing the two metre rule | R |
| Victims accepted vaccines not minding its efficacy | G |
| Perhaps the burden and weight of languish pulled their hearts | P |
| And made breathing even more difficult than should be | G |
| Some were left at the mercy of the hands of death | S |
| Allowing the air of pity linger around them | T |
| Their lives being slowly sipped out like coconut juice | U |
| Others are only spared an hour or two to lament | V |
| Before they join the toll of deaths even without recognition by name | W |
| Yet many had gone no chance to even write a proper will | X |
| No number of minutes of silence could pay enough respect to the lives lost | Y |
| COVID brought hardship hunger insecurity curfew even brutality | G |
| Our lives were on hold and no one was doing anything | E |
| Not because we chose not to do anything | E |
| But rather because we could not do anything | E |
| Normalcy had come to an abrupt stop | Z |
| We knew we were drowning in the waves of the pandemic | A2 |
| Yet we hoped there was a life guard a life jacket somewhere | B2 |
| We chose to hope that we would survive | C2 |
| That was the least we could do | D2 |
| I survived | E2 |
Obagha Chiamaka
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 04/18/2021
Poet's note: In the heat of pandemic. I was scared. I was worried. I was sad. Perhaps it wasn't my hands writing, it was my heart composing. My heart in my mouth. Full of fear and anxiety. Fear of the known. I could only hope for the best.
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