Who Sees What I Think Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCC DDDDD EFFCG HIHJH KLMMM NCMOPQ CRSTU VCWCGM CMMXYZ MSCA2OB2 MTMTMCan you allow me to count | A |
All the things to my heart bring grunt | B |
For it s not just empty runts | C |
When from them I hear just taunts | C |
From a world so full of fonts | C |
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Just allow me to ask about the new day | D |
Why Jesus was never black for a day | D |
Just tell me why the wise men from the East would pay | D |
To see a King dabbled in hay | D |
Tell me why why the black man was left away | D |
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For four hundred years plus he was a slave | E |
Just forty years in captivity children of Israel were saved | F |
By the stroke of a stick to the Red sea their way was paved | F |
But four hundred sea deep tears muffled the cries | C |
Of million black slaves from heaven | G |
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Shame on you Satan you wouldn t be black | H |
For if you were our lives wouldn t be dark | I |
So why to your type you won t go back | H |
And enjoy the blood they already drank | J |
To their guts so filthy black | H |
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Tell me why the world was so mull | K |
When the Blackman s head was a trophy | L |
At Nyadzonya at Chimoio at Sharpeville even Daffur | M |
Tell me why when the stab was of a white spear | M |
The world looked the other side in fear | M |
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Why for years Ian Smith was a poet | N |
Who sang of the Blackman s demise | C |
Who never saw Pik Botha paint the picture | M |
Of an Africa home of the Boer snow white | O |
Why would we pretend the debt was paid | P |
When in our hearts the wounds still bleed | Q |
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Steve Biko dead Malcolm X so who cares | C |
Patrice Lumumba wasn t he killed | R |
Even the peace loving Martin Luther King | S |
Tupac Shakur never chose to die | T |
But the killing machine never seized | U |
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Why wouldn t I believe that they tried | V |
To stop the black race through science | C |
Why wouldn t I think AIDS is the product | W |
For culling the black race | C |
Why would I trust a Whiteman s intention | G |
When all history speaks of his treachery | M |
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Why now do they shake in their pants | C |
About a Zimbabwe reeling in poverty | M |
When Angola is in a decade s long war | M |
Sudan Congo Somalia it s no white man s land | X |
Black women and children cry to death | Y |
But how precious is black life | Z |
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Is it a secret anymore their fear | M |
Of an African resurrection a new uprising | S |
To claim back what s rightfully theirs | C |
Taken away by hook and crook | A2 |
The same good world watched over slavery apartheid | O |
The same world stands for them in guard of their loot | B2 |
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Do you see what I see | M |
That when they cry I have to cry | T |
When I cry they only pat me | M |
Who cares about the tears I cry | T |
Or are they just rivers of my sorrow | M |
Seke Bharu
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