What's is the right punishment?



What's the right punishment?
  For;
A crime that defies punishment,
A pain inflicted on God himself.

A crime too ominous -
for words to convey
Yet the offender dwells in Christ,

A crime done to motherhood,
Her dignity fading -
with each 'whoosh' of the belt.

Her voice drowned;
By the 'gbim gbam' of blows.

   Helplessly ;
She resigned to date
  Neither the ray
nor  the flicker of Grace
Could save her,
   
Fear dominated her will
Like  the prey
 Waiting and yet praying
 To avoid destiny.



  And the  hunter
Intent on living this fate
 to the  core.
                                                  Dedicated to
                                                 Late oshinachi          
                                                        Nwachukwu

About this poem

The poem advocate against domestic violence

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Written on September 18, 2022

Submitted by chinedukelvin347 on September 17, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAX XCX XDX XX EFCXG XCDE GFBXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 764
Words 127
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 3, 2, 5, 4, 6

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