The Ambushed Virtues

David Agbo 1984 (Ebonyi)



The Ambushed Virtues.

Different figures of devourers
In line not as builders,
When day's activities resumes
Each jostling for her juicy portion
Of the unripe grapes,
Alarms of guilty pleasure skipped.

Under key and lock indoor,
The timing for game charming.
In between nose and mouth,
The breadwinner deceived.
A gory sight to the innocent onlookers.

Jaws dropped, tongue clung
To the lip,
When schedules clashed.
The other mate under the other roof caught, among the leagues.
Trust betrayed, empathy beckoned.

Devourers! live them alone to grow;
To take steps in sequence
To take roots like the trees
To take stocks for harvest
Then you can seek their hands,
To climb the corporate ladder.

Breadwinners, plant your seeds on time, in a loamy settings.
So that tomorrow will have decent substitute,
So that old age will not regret.
Virtues will not wane to extinct but wax.

Dear pedoadolesceophile,
Learn to tame your ripe urge
As a timed biological indicator,
Not as a call for indecent exploration
Harnessed instead, towards the ripe grape,
For our virtues to soar till infinity.

About this poem

It is a didactic poem that centres on the loss of the sanctity of the female prestige to virginity due to a lack of parental responsibility to their children at their sensitive formative stages of development creating room for undisciplined males taking the advantage of it to the detriment of the girls.

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Written on February 17, 2018

Submitted by bonadave on September 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A ABXCXX XXXXB XXXXX XXXXXD XXXX XXDCXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,087
Words 209
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 6, 5, 5, 6, 4, 6

David Agbo

A graduate nurse and full-time employed Nurse educator at the College of Nursing University of Benin teaching hospital in Benin City, Edo State Nigeria. A humanist, poem freak and lover of justice, inclusiveness and diversity in interpersonal relationships. more…

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