Ma Afriq Weeps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCD EFCDG HHIJD CKLG MNOCP QCRS RCITU IVCWC XY| Look at my daughters mistaken for wayward fugitives | A |
| My sons living like warlords at each other s neck | B |
| Their children are in so much hate and lust after their cousins | C |
| Behaving like offspring from separate wombs | C |
| My tears continue to run and no one | D |
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| Did not bear I you all from one womb | E |
| Did you all not suck from the same sap | F |
| Did I mistake your conceptions | C |
| Did I not cloth you with the same palm fronts you now destroy because civilization | D |
| Did I not teach you all the power of unity | G |
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| Do you know how much you had instore for you | H |
| Do you know the vast treasures our ancestors left for you | H |
| Do you know what history ties you all together | I |
| Do you know what makes you black | J |
| Do you know the true mark of your melanin | D |
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| Look at you now a laughingstock to the foreigners | C |
| Look at you now a weed of the feed waiting to be trashed | K |
| Look at you selling out your heritage for fake gold | L |
| Look at you a shadow of your past glory | G |
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| You make me groan in pain on my grave | M |
| Afflicting my resting place with your siblings blood | N |
| Feeding my tombstone with flowers of guile | O |
| Coming to serenade me with your murmuring and evil intentions | C |
| Neglecting to sweep my grave side because you taught junior will | P |
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| I am now a ridicule to them that prayed for my downfall | Q |
| I am now shamed before my peers | C |
| Your forefathers labored and you destroyed it | R |
| I am now a mother whose children are now exiled from their home | S |
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| Ethiopia had my horn as Somalia supported it | R |
| Nigeria was my giant with ancestral empires that rule the continents | C |
| Ghana was my gold coast as Botswana was my diamond treasure | I |
| I had a natural treasure at Tanzania Uganda Mauritius and South Africa | T |
| Mali was my son of creativity with beautiful heritage | U |
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| Where did I go wrong as a mother | I |
| Burning your siblings wasn t enough | V |
| You strive in the blood of your sisters | C |
| Practicing slavery amongst your kindred | W |
| Hunting each other like wild dogs | C |
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| Dedicated to My Black Continent | X |
| Inspired From NEED TO UNITE | Y |
Omokpariola Elshalom
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