Where Do We Go From Here Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHIJKLMNOPQJH FRSHTMJUVWXBSYFKZA2B 2C2D2 E2JF2CJCFG2G2H2OI2JH 2J2K2CL2L2M2| It has been six hundred years | A |
| When a dozen of us took the ship ride | B |
| That would drive dozens of us | C |
| Into generations of servitude | D |
| All over the globe we were tamed | E |
| Like the all powerful gorilla | F |
| It has been just as long | G |
| Since they realized that we are strong | G |
| The most enduring race in the world | H |
| Thus their idiosyncratic malediction to our type | I |
| They have tried to drive us into extinction | J |
| Vitiation has failed for generations | K |
| In time we have proved our mettle | L |
| We have stood the test of time | M |
| We have outlived the longest holocaust | N |
| We the race of sorrows in the human family | O |
| The Japanese have been paid off for their pain | P |
| The Jews have been rewarded God | Q |
| With the promised land of Canaan | J |
| With fat bank accounts from the whole world | H |
| They the chosen tribe of Judah | F |
| They still whine at the use of just words | R |
| Yet we take it everyday | S |
| Even from them that cry foul to the world | H |
| The worst racists of all human kind | T |
| Antisemitism has been coined a crime | M |
| No word describes our daily bread and malediction | J |
| We the black sheep of the flock | U |
| We carried the world on our shoulders | V |
| As it spat on our faces for centuries | W |
| We have been whipped back slapped | X |
| But we stood firm we rode the tide | B |
| Here they described us in the most blatant way | S |
| Only the heartiest of Africans could endure | Y |
| The cruel middle passage to North America | F |
| Once off loaded the surviving Africans | K |
| Were paraded atop auction stages | Z |
| For inspection of their physical traits | A2 |
| Thus was born eugenics a movement to create | B2 |
| Monster workers of us to till their land | C2 |
| And lift their loads | D2 |
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| We survived Jim Crow and so did we the Boers | E2 |
| The Ku Klux Klan could not lynch us to extinction | J |
| The Carnegie Institute we will beat | F2 |
| We will survive the AIDS war so imposed on us | C |
| Just like castration and sterilization | J |
| They failed to subdue us | C |
| Only time will tell that we are the true tribe of Judah | F |
| We will outlive any other race | G2 |
| Just like we gave life to every race | G2 |
| Heroes of our type have come and been silenced | H2 |
| We have been robbed of the best we mourn daily | O |
| The hardest of our flock silently softened | I2 |
| By the unscrupulous devil machine | J |
| Marcus Garvey Patrice Lumumba silenced | H2 |
| Malcolm X a shining beacon bullet riddled to silence | J2 |
| Steve Biko fearless to death | K2 |
| Tupac Shakur honestly brilliant frankly rebellious | C |
| Martin Luther King a prophet of sorts | L2 |
| Our greatest voices turned out by quislings | L2 |
| Where do we go now how do we get from here | M2 |
Seke Bharu
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