By Kenganzi Anitah Maverick

Love can make ordinary expressions take on entirely new meanings. In The Only Achilles Heel, Kenganzi Anitah Maverick uses familiar idioms and playful contradictions to describe someone who has become deeply important to her.

From an “April shower” that brings “May flowers” to the “apple of my eye,” the speaker presents love as both a blessing and a vulnerability. Her language is energetic, humorous and deliberately exaggerated. Yet beneath the wordplay is a simple confession: this is someone she cannot get out of her system.

Just like that,
he became a five-finger discount,
very early at the break of the york.

I sit to thank this daily dreamer.
I assuredly count the blessings
for my April shower that brought May flowers.

He does everything accidentally on purpose.

Do you ever wonder where I get “Ahasuerus”?

I look up to him of my own accord.
I publicly announce he is the apple of my eye.

Because of him, I made love a daily bread,
the heart soother I have got.

I just can’t get him out of my system.

All by the act of God?

I’m always ready to blow out of proportion
that my God gave me a blank cheque.

With His presence, I’m ever bouncing off the walls,
not the wet blanket you can talk about.

— Kenganzi Anitah Maverick

Kenganzi Anitah Maverick is a Munyankole writer who completed Senior Six in 2026. She began writing while in Senior Two and has since written more than 200 poems, one play and three novels, which are yet to be published.

Her growing body of work reflects a passion for creative writing that she has nurtured throughout her secondary-school years.