Indomitable. A lion among men.
I know a man with a ball at his feet.
Blue and red striped at this stage,
His heart is unrolled and his sleeves, the opposite.
His roar and his lion’s mane, echo him.
A boy playing a man’s game.
The oldest swinger in town.
I know a man dancing his youth to the wind.
Graceful and timeless.
I know of a land fleet with hills,
Green with dialect. Rivered terrains.
I know of a people come from places.
I know of a land across time.
A place that holds my root in prawns.
A land before I trekked south towards the rain.
A land of men who can lock a sleeve and weave a lace
A land of women who have known to tame the earth for wares
A land of mangroves along the coast and along its water’s edge.
Trees shedding their leaves in turn when the wind whips,
Giant hawks wading in its sky with eagles and the little sunbird,
A memory sketched from old histories, a few elephants.
Some forest northwest of here,
Green gold, red sweat and two stars aligning.
This Poem was published in the May 2022 edition of the WSA magazine. Please click here to download.
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