Africa's Breast



Poem : " Africa's Breast "

* Africa's Breast has fallen,
  And now oozes sour milk,
  The breast of a disvirgined virgin,
   Africa a dagger breast....

* Suckled by the large mouths of foreign countries,
   With their insatiable lust for mother Africa's milk,
  Draining her off her sweet milk, making her breast fall like the London bridge.....




* The breast no longer stands,
  Because Suckled dry ,
It now looks like an ironing board,
   With nothing left for us to suckle......



* What not we would have had,
  If we had Suckled it when it was Standing, Round and bouncy,
   But as the breast is our economy ,
  Suckled by foreign mouths ,
   And we suckling from our mother's fallen breast .....
   We suffer.........

Africa's Breast...

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About this poem

It talks about the fallen economy of Africa and how the Europeans contributed to the fall of our economy

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Submitted by stephenabah240 on November 09, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme A XBXA XBX XXXX XCCXAX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 764
Words 151
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 3, 4, 6

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