CHIMAERA*

Everybody invoke you as gruesome;
describe you as the synonym of horror;
define you as an impossible hope.
But….. I adore you so much.
You are a white hope!

Even though you breathe out fire,
have lion’s head and snake’s tail;
I can see the udder on your body
as an icon of motherhood!
It leads me to an indefinable amazement!

I hope…..
if the youth could breathe out
the fire of riposte;
if they could roar against the injustice;
if they could squirt poison on corruption;
and above all…..
if they could cuddle humanity.

Dearie,alert the young
and be an acme for them!!!

*According to Greek mythology, a monstrous fire-breathing female creature with lion's head, goat's body and snake's tail.