Shackles

Adegoke Yoela 2005 (Jos)



Oh! what a bondage
it held me tight
like a mobile prison
it limits me
it's a shackle
it  chained me

it so hard that i can't loose
so tight i can't breath
so narrow i  can't move
am held where i don't know
i am attached where i can't fight
how do i face it

oh fear!  you've robbed me
you passed like locus
 you ate like caterpillar
devoured me with your own teeth
 rushed me with your giant feet
what weapon can i use

i wish you where bone i would have broken you
flesh i would have eaten you
blood i would have slayed you
liquid i would have pilled
gas i would have trapped
but, what the heck are you

if you really work in mind
then why  do i sweat
why do i have goosebumps
why  do my  hands stagger
why  do my  voice break
why all the poundings going on in my  chest

it like am on the ring with an invisible opponent
punching a ghost
shooting against a point behind a glass
like the night images dogs bark at
hmm! the that picture of my enemy
bless the fearful.
 

About this poem

It majorly an expression of my experience with fear.

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Written on October 27, 2022

Submitted by tevytolu on October 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXBCB DXXXAX BXEXXD FFFAXF XXDEXX XXXXBC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 978
Words 211
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6

Adegoke Yoela

Am a female am 17 and am a nigeria. more…

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  • moonlitrose
    this poem is very interesting,the more i read the more i felt your fear .beautfiully worded.
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