Why Do You Do Me Like That Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIG JKLFIMN OFPQFRSLTUTF FVIWXY FIZPFA2B2C2D2JIB2F JE2F2EG2H2I2J2K2IB2E L2B2EVSI| Of cause I know it was Osama | A |
| Who turned my life upside down | B |
| It's not my fault that today I am terrorized | C |
| Turned inside out they search my soul | D |
| One so open and bare couldn't hide a needle | E |
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| Daddy told me 'you can't be king wherever' | F |
| But to your people and in your land | G |
| That's how I fold my tail like a dog I evince | H |
| Accepting everything I can get with humility | I |
| The soldier in me manumitted in a strange land | G |
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| I watch your discussion on Television | J |
| Never sparing me a day like I were a wizard in your pack | K |
| I take the left over jobs I know you don't want to do them | L |
| You blame me for putting pressure on your infrastructure | F |
| But I pay for everything for you to enjoy for free | I |
| I get no vacation no unemployment benefit can't complain | M |
| All I want is a chance to put smiles on distraught faces | N |
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| I haven't seen a doctor in years | O |
| Been stressed had no choice but ignore | F |
| Once had a flue bills I still had to pay | P |
| Sneezed my day at work shamefully it left me alone | Q |
| The time I try to rest my children cry | F |
| They get louder in the ears of my head | R |
| They cry daddy daddy we miss you please come home | S |
| So harder and harder I work hoping to get back with them | L |
| In the next year but it never happens | T |
| More and more of my people succumb to AIDS | U |
| They leave widows then orphans | T |
| With no one to take care for | F |
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| I promise my wife one more year | F |
| It will be four years maybe they grant me asylum | V |
| Then you can join me to this the land of milk and honey | I |
| So I keep hope floating she has no choice | W |
| I swear my never ending love I leave her no words | X |
| She is stuck with the man in her dreams | Y |
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| My son was nine when I left he turned into a teenager | F |
| My daughter was four months old she | I |
| Will learn to read and write | Z |
| I see a little girl run past my door every day | P |
| Oh she is so sweet I tell her mother | F |
| Thank you she said nut I know she says to herself | A2 |
| How old is she I asked once | B2 |
| Will be four in June she says | C2 |
| My heart stops a second mine will be four in June too | D2 |
| But I can't say it I can't imagine | J |
| How that little pack of pure joy can bring sadness to me | I |
| I watch her run away in the distance | B2 |
| So my mind wanders that far | F |
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| I love news I love talk shows and they glue me to television | J |
| Now it's almost always about immigrants | E2 |
| Illegal immigrants defines me in a nutshell | F2 |
| The only thing I have ever been that's illegal | E |
| My heart aches not only for me but for thousands | G2 |
| Most of my African brothers and sisters | H2 |
| Ridiculed by near disasters at home and by humanity abroad | I2 |
| I cry inside Oh Lord what have I done wrong | J2 |
| My heart will never know true happiness | K2 |
| All I can do is create peace inside me | I |
| For the crumbs that still make a difference | B2 |
| In the life of my people | E |
| I know that someday my hosts will ask me to leave | L2 |
| To go back to my impoverished existence | B2 |
| That I am so used to with the rest of my people | E |
| I appreciate though that I have outlived my welcome | V |
| I can't blame them this is their home | S |
| They are entitled to their privacy | I |
Seke Bharu
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