
A LION'S PRIDE
Lion, for so long my thoughts has been clasped by your
paws and today your form still stalks thought my mind.
Our spirits are merged in an indefinable way.
I have followed your tracks, which betrayed your presence,
upon the sadly ground. I have found you
in patches of yellow as you dissolve into dry bush.
I have witnessed your progressions;
I have seen your young grow. I have seen you kill and fight and die,
and sadly I have seen you destroyed before you have lived.
There is a reason why these events have entered me and refuse to leave.
At night, floating in the evening air, you tell me of the
hurt in your load, anguished, calls
. Your plight, your existence is so very fragile.
Perhaps you are crying through the need of assurance
for your being, that has been treated for so long.
Lion, your dead are not dead, but may roam again
upon the wide plains and in the forest's dark dephts.
For this, I give you hope.
Gareth Pattersonpaws and today your form still stalks thought my mind.
Our spirits are merged in an indefinable way.
I have followed your tracks, which betrayed your presence,
upon the sadly ground. I have found you
in patches of yellow as you dissolve into dry bush.
I have witnessed your progressions;
I have seen your young grow. I have seen you kill and fight and die,
and sadly I have seen you destroyed before you have lived.
There is a reason why these events have entered me and refuse to leave.
At night, floating in the evening air, you tell me of the
hurt in your load, anguished, calls
. Your plight, your existence is so very fragile.
Perhaps you are crying through the need of assurance
for your being, that has been treated for so long.
Lion, your dead are not dead, but may roam again
upon the wide plains and in the forest's dark dephts.
For this, I give you hope.
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