SAVIOUR
SAVIOUR
Akinnate Oluwatobiloba
Cold corpse stacked—
Memories of our ugly past.
We bear scars
of souls massacred,
Sinking our suffocating hearts
in rivers of anguish.
Songs of death play endlessly
in our grieving minds,
Our sacred groans, renounced
by a saviour's deafened ears;
Thought to bring respite from torture
but now plagues with horror,
Engraving pain on both young and old.
The asperity you bring
Sends lives fleeing to distant lands
for succour.
When will your eyes behold the afflicted?
When will your ears incline to the wails of the innocent?
Our cries seep from the mire.
About this poem
The poem "Saviour" by Akinnate Oluwatobiloba is a poignant cry for help and rescue from a state of anguish and despair. It describes a bleak landscape of suffering, with "cold corpse stacked" and "scars of souls massacred". The speaker feels abandoned by a saviour, with "deafened ears" and "renounced" cries. The poem pleads for intervention, asking "When will your eyes behold the afflicted?" and "When will your ears incline to the wails of the innocent?" It's a powerful expression of desperation and longing for salvation from unbearable pain. more »
Submitted by oluwatobilobaakinnate on August 04, 2024
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| Scheme | AX XXXXXX XXXXAAX XXAXX A |
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 592 |
| Words | 112 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 6, 7, 5, 1 |
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