This poem is taken from Stand 232, 19(4) December 2021 - February 2022.

Merle Collins Two Poems
The Roar

The child is seven.
Face tight as a sour guava
Eyes an impossible challenge to a 
Raging mother, she says,
When I grow up I’ll be a lion
And I shall roar.
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