Lion

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Yay another poem by me! Well this one is a bit depressing but you know what? I don't care! Enjoy!


Today I face the lion.
The lion wakes, it roars and tears at me with savage teeth and words
I try to fight by barricading myself in armor
The lion rips it off, says I can’t fight it. I’m the gazelle. The lion’s prey and I can’t do anything
I get hopeful one day, when the lion isn’t as brutal
But the next day the lion is twice as savage
Ripping me into shreds and tiny pieces

Today I try and talk to the lion
But it simply laughed at my words. Telling me I didn’t understand
I’ll never escape from this lion, it’s been with me and says it always will
It says I don’t understand what I myself am saying
I try to argue back
But the lion simply tore me into pieces

Everyday I face the same fate.
Get up, try to fight the lion, get torn into pieces, get put back together with pieces that aren’t me
Repeat
I am slowly losing myself to the lion
Slowly losing whatever hopes and dreams I have or even wish to have
Will I ever beat the lion?
Probably not….

After all, the lion is better known as life.
Or even better
The lion itself is me

Comments

  1. Nora M. CadenceJanuary 11, 2017 at 8:54 AM

    That was really insightful. I loved it. All of that I feel is completely true to life. There are good things but there are definitely bad things as well. I liked the line that said, "put back together pieces that aren't me." I feel like to often in life we focus to much on what we are dong in the world and not enough on how the world is changing us. I know that I'm not the same person that I was in grade school and I'm certainly not the same person I was before grade school. Each moment in life is there to help define us and that is why people are so unpredictable. We are always changing.Thanks for the thought-provoking poem.

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