Bleeding Heart

Lawal Zuleihat 2000 (Kogi)



BLEEDING HEART
                             
      
 We sit watching zilch; grieving,
Having nothing else to believe in.
In our place, our hearts grows older,
 Our grunts and sighs makes it colder.
As days goes by,
We end it with a sigh.

Our world is wounded; we have lived a lie,
In our tears we ask why?
As the grass is blessed with the morning dew,
We wake to see us but a few.
And pray not for another dire,
Bold but hopeless we aspire.

Without armours we fight in the dark,
A gory war that we must embark.
Then by day we count our ruins,
Bury the dead and treat the wounds.
We creep to our hide with wounded feet,
Another bloody day we must complete.

Gloom cover the faces of children from alphabeta
Cholera breaks it spell on their cracked lips,
With hopeful eyes praying for a life more better,
And wish to survive what life brings.
Their hands cover in blood instead of toys,
Willing to fight without a choice.

The wind works against us in the dark,
Softly calling from the east,
Then whispers with a sort of stifled bark,
Lo! Then come  voices of the beast.
Stumbling with lean legs; finding our way,
Until it shines upon us again another day.

By day we fear the evil rain
That brings flames and destruction,
Leaving us to grieve in we pain,
Until it unleashes a new turn.
As fear rips our heart in length,
We struggle to find strength.

Our desert tongues lick our body ooze
With dry throats, and empty stomach,
Having nothing else to choose,
All virtues as sapiens we've lack.
Blood becomes fresh water
And we consume the flesh of our sons and daughter.

They say those who err reap the fruit of their sins,
We waited, believing it be true,
But we see them celebrate days of wins,
And now we only sit and look while our hatred grew,
Lingering, if our fate will alter
Or will come the karma of the latter.

We have put on a mask that grins and lies,
That hide our face but reveals our grieving eyes,
With bleeding hearts we wear a smile,
That lasts only for a short while.
We gather ourselves and sing with a sigh,
Mourning why our lives are the debt we pay to human guile.

Our hearts find rest in the rain,
Our hearts find peace in dismay,
Our hearts believe and feign
And our hopes it betray,
God has enjoyed upon us this life,
To survive this brutality we must strive.

About this poem

This poem responds to every people who has suffered the pangs of war. This explains the pains the subject are meant to suffer while in a fight for glory, disregarding how many innocent has to die, snatching away the joy of childhood from children and subjecting them to war.

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Written on February 10, 2024

Submitted by zullyeihat on March 28, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAABB BBCCDD EEXXFF CXAXXX EGEGHH IXIXJJ KXKXAA LCLCAA MMNNBN IHIHXX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 2,289
Words 490
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6

Lawal Zuleihat

Lawal Zuleihat hails from the North Central part of Nigeria. An aspiring author, screenwriter and poet. A lover of cats. An introvert a person she is, spends most of her times reading and creating her own world through writing. An obsession that has lived with her since she was nine. She has written a few collections of poems, crafted two draft novels and a scriptwriting she wish to give out to the world. For as long as she continues to write, her existence has a meaning. more…

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