Hope
Iheme Ifeyinwa 1989 (Chad)
Alas!
The wails of Fatherland
I weep over you land
I weep for you, Father
I weep for your toils
I weep over your drilled dreams
I weep over the lives sacrificed
For your sake oh land!
Oh Father! the land delivered
From strong men has become
A place of ruin, a ring of beasts,
A dungeon of cracked bones,
A pit of blood and a charade.
Huddled with a quest for
Autonomy, knowledge failed
You to descry that you'll
Redeem to release to politicides
And genocides. Perhaps you
Envisaged not a terrocratic!
I meant demoncratic!
Democratic society I meant to
Say; where democide has worn
A crown. Though in obscurity, I
See hope. A land purged and sane
Where children will again be children
Men again be men, not predators.
Only a course of time, then we shall
Hear and see the rising of Fatherland.
About this poem
Inspired by the swift change in Nigeria. The poem intone mourns the lives wasted in a quest of independence, admonishes the founding fathers, pictures the current ruins of the nation and also speaks hope and restoration.
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Written on July 20, 2022
Submitted by ihemeifeyinwa on October 24, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABBCDEFBGHIJKLMNAOPPOQRSTUVB |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 801 |
Words | 159 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
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