Lion of an Alternate Path
This was a poem meant for World Lion Day… which was actually yesterday at the time I posted it but I posted it that day anyway. Title says it all really and there’s also an art piece to kind of go with this that I posted(linked below). Originally posted in August 2022.
Link to art: https://www.sofurry.com/view/2137533
Lion of an Alternate Path
By: A.X. Bueno
I should have known you were still out there somewhere
The lion of a different path
I guess seeing you again was something of which I should have expected more
After all I could have been you even if I don't think that's possible anymore
And that's not a bad thing, you just happen to no longer be me
Life just took me in a different direction but it's good you're out there somewhere being free
Being you helped me along the way to where I am now
You were fearsome, you were powerful, you were confident and strong
But I've found my own new ways to be those things and more when needed
Still I'm glad you've got your own life somewhere out there
You were once a part of me after all who helped me a lot and I still care
Still it shocked me when I saw you again
I didn't expect that or how quickly our encounter would suddenly end
Somehow though I think I'll manage to find and see you again
Whenever that may be I hope you're doing better than you were before you split from me
Balancing yourself out better to hide less behind a facade and surviving more easily