Tarima's Dilemma
Have you ever been in a situation of choices,
where you must pick one, despite the toughness?
Have you ever been presented with a dilemma,
where there's no way of escape but total surrender?
There was a girl who was losing her mind,
as she had been caught up in a fix.
She had to decide from a double bind,
whether to remain here or get in transit.
She had been abducted by a bunch of bandits,
who'd beaten and raped her, leaving her for dead.
Then, there appears a man in his late thirties,
who rescues and lays her on his bed.
She is awake now, to face reality,
so she asks the man how she got on there.
The man however, is amazed at her identity,
and he starts to fidget in a great fear.
He had been the one that took her dad's life,
when he had broken into their family house.
And then her ma had died when she was just five,
as she was getting sad and had become a louse.
The man then kneels down to tell who he was,
what he'd done, and how he was sorry.
At hearing that, there was a long pause,
as his words had brought back her worst memory.
Then she remembered the story she was told;
how a group of men came, and attacked their home.
One of them raped her mom, and put a bullet in her husband's head,
and it's the same guy that's standing by her bed.
She is a product of the bad experience,
she's the man's child, and now gets to know.
You might wanna ask what was the evidence;
Well, folks recognize the ones that's their own.
Now she's bewildered as the past begins to unfold.
She is reminded of her pain, which has gone down her bone.
Can she let this slide, and put her grudges on hold?
Or should she just go ahead, and get the cops on the phone?
About this poem
A fictional story.
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Written on November 26, 2022
Submitted by iamfemiwhite on November 26, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXX AXAX XBXB CXCX XDXD XCXC EXBB FXFG EGEG |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,667 |
Words | 374 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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