David Before the Stone
by Abraham Aondoana
Before the stone,
before the shout,
and before the giant got to know it,
David stood small
inside a very big fear.
The armor didn’t fit.
The doubt did.
And so he thought of friendly conquests —
a lion turned away,
a bear convinced to leave,
God’s voice steady
when everything else shook.
Faith didn’t make him taller.
It made him truer.
And sometimes that’s enough
to change the ending.
About the Poet
Abraham Aondoana is a writer, poet and novelist. He is a recipient of the Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop 2026. His works have been published in Kalahari Review, Prosetrics Magazine, Rough Diamond Poetry, The Cat Poetry Anthology, IHTOV, The Literary Nest, Ink Sweat and Tears (UK), Rogue Agent, Ink in Thirds Magazine, Interwoven Anthology (Renard Press), Writing on the Wall, Alien Buddha, Blasphemous Journal, Rust Belt Review, Speculative Insights and elsewhere.
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