I WILL SHOW YOU
Poem by Refilwe J Mokgatlenyane
Photo by Teona Swift from Pexels
She said, “Give me a flower,
And I’ll show you how to take care of it, so it doesn’t lose its color
Give me a rose
And I’ll show you how to avoid its thorns from pricking you even if you hold it close
Give me a pad
And I’ll write you the story of how I grew up with everyone thinking am mad
Give me the world
And I’ll show you how to make it a better place
I’ll show you how a boy and girl should be raised to be brother and sister and not selfish competitors in a race
But you gave me a pen
And I wrote you this poem, with the hope that from it there’s a lesson you’ll learn
Refilwe Mokgatlenyane is a young writer, an aspiring entrepreneur and an LLB student at the University of Botswana. Her writing journey has started way back since she was 9 years old, she started off as a short story writer and changed to novels and later on started specialising more on poetry writing.
