Today, I roar like a loose lion
hungry to prowl the morning kilometres of sundawn
but steel clangs in;
bars me, binds me, unbinds me.
You are the restraint
The crucial divorce from leaden chains
The narrow path that urgently commands my presence.
You are the challenge that won’t let me grieve
Today, you are a cage, my great freedom.
Toyin Adewale-Gabriel
Hurs & Ryder 