Speaker could be anyone who has made this journey, but Nichols probably speaks as herself. Note images and symbols from nature, which explain poet's relationship to the Caribbean and to England. Wind is like a ship in having travelled across the ocean. Contrasts power of lightning with electricity generated by man. Fallen trees like poet, uprooted from home.
Poet looks at attempts to change the apartheid system, and shows how they make no real difference.
No sign shows this but black people, being poor, not allowed past guard. It is symbol of divisions of colour and class. He wants to break glass. Poet assumes reader knows South Africa, referring to places, plants and local food. In this collection there are many poems about identity , who people are and what they are like.