Dark Cloud
Only yesterday,
I lost my voice
to a gust of wind
that stifled
their innocent presence
leaving shreds
of broken humanity
to rubble.
From the four corners
we wept a bucketful
but our collective drop
proved a futile rite
in the throes of transition.
Only yesterday,
the sudden silence
of the rumbling thunder
muffled by the whistling wind
formed a cloud without rain.
The plants in the nursery
have withered and cannot be watered,
for the water in my well
has dried up…
Only yesterday,
a bloody yesterday,
the air of unripe harvest hit our nose,
and paroxysm
of sneezing seized us.
In the throes
of the raging inferno,
our collective echo proved a stifled yawn;
the flame on our horizon
licked clean the soles
of our saintly souls
leaving behind
a heap of broken humanity.
Like the tide,
the crimson river flows freely
to fertilize the famished earth
that now yields nothing but ghostly harvests.
About this poem
The poem captures the tragedy of the human condition as experienced by the victims of terrorist attack in Nigeria and other developing countries. It presents the futility one feels watching such a tragedy unfold.
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Written on August 15, 2021
Submitted by kennethefeh on August 15, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | Axbxcxde xexxf Acxbx dxxx Aagxx gxxfhhbd xdxx |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 860 |
Words | 156 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 5, 5, 4, 5, 8, 4 |
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