The wind burnt branches sway in the South.
Why won’t rain fill in the desert lands mouth?
The deeply tanned children drag their worked feet.
Whilst the river flows far but the children never meet.
The mud huts protect them from the noises in the night.
Why can’t someone help them with sympathetic sight?
The innocent children have terror of realisation.
That they may never gain help from their Northerly nation…
In this poem I have conveyed performance with a call and response, one line is read and then a rhetorical question is asked by another speaker. In the next verse, the same technique is used but no question is asked in the second line. However, the poem returns to normal by the third verse and this pattern repeats itself. I have displayed the colour theme of brown as in each first line an object is used to represent that colour, apart from the first line in the last stanza where the overall idea is shown. My poem questions the thoughts of the reader when asking rhetorical questions and it connects emotionally, making the reader feel guilty but appreciate that they live a rich life or at a standard better than the one shown in the poem. I have used a rhyming technique which causes the poem to flow. The overall idea of my poem is that children in Africa are deprived of food and water and no other country is willing to help them, they feel alone and frightened of what might be out in the bare plain lands, repetition is used with the rhetorical questions which keeps refreshing the readers mind that something could be done to change the situation.
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