Analysis of What pride?

GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)



A gay mood is in the air
Lesbians and bisexuals are hand in hand
Transgenders are answering the questioners
And a gaggle of pluses are in giggles

While they march in pride
I shamefully hunker in my closet
Tightly bound in self-censorship straitjacket
I cannot move an inch let alone marching

While they flaunt their rainbow colors
I am busy washing away mine
Lest I stand out or be seen
And suffer the wrath for the unwanted

While they bask in the open
Free and without fear
I jump from shadow to shadow
Having been marked as shoot on sight

They say to have pride in being different
But they refuse to recognise mine
My name is so taboo
Even the anonymous '+' does not cover me

Locked away in the skeletal closet of the society
I am denied the right to parade in the open
Denied any initials to hide my shame
The measly '+' might just as well be a '-'


Scheme XXAX XBBX ACXX DXXX XCXE EDXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0111001 10001001101 111000100 00101101010 11101 11100110 101011010 11011110110 1111110 111010011 1111111 0100110010 1110010 10011 111111 10111111 11111010100 1101111 111101 100010011101 1010010010100100 1101011010010 01100101111 010111110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 856
Words 168
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 27

About this poem

A dedication to all those poor souls locked out of the LGBTQ+ umbrella. To all those societal pariahs whose only crime was being born. To all those whose living is a life sentence. To the living dead.

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Submitted by GIDRAF on December 29, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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