Poem Analysis: Meeting Vera

Meeting Vera, you are amazed at her energy. She is confident in herself as a young woman, as leader, and a game changer. Her Afro centric demeanor and her outspokenness are part of the driving force that makes her to decide to paint landscapes with poetry instead of a paintbrush. She was born in Malawi then later moved to Botswana as a young adult, youngest of two girls – she was always the outspoken one. Never one to back down from the status quo, refusing to confine herself in the boxes provided by society and more often than not was misunderstood because of it. “I speak my mind mostly and sometimes this might be a problem to soft spoken individuals thus my weakness.” She says, without a blink of apology in her eyes.
Her team partner Faless