Glaucoma
glaucoma
our glaucomaed eyes were silently take away
they fed it with multiple glasses
which covered our foster eyes from reality.
Our glaucomed mouths
Were fed with malnourished food of deception
We chewed till all our fabricated teeth fell out
Then we drank acidic water of ulcer.
Our asthmatic hearts
Were slit with the bitterness of cough
And when we coughed
Our hearts pumped out cancerous blood
We lost the good air of life
And it made it hard for us to breath properly
We had to grasp for air.
We tried to survive many health difficulties
but all to no avail
We staggered to live
But it seems harder than we thought
We soon found ourselves on the floor
Were we dead?
Were we intoxicated?
Are we blind?
Let earth tell us!
About this poem
this poem talks about the current situation in Nigeria, how we struggle daily and how our political leaders continue to feed us with lies. I wrote this poem out the pain i feel for my beloved country Nigeria,.
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Written on December 08, 2022
Submitted by promisepeter on August 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 734 |
Words | 143 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 7, 9 |
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