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Draw the Curtains


How dare you

call yourself a lion when you can't even RAWRR?

Refusing to acknowledge that this world means war

you nest, numbing your mind endlessly in a frenzy of instant gratifications;

Thoughtlessness and simplicity wipe clear your imagination.

No desires can overcome the ease you plead

as you sit back and watch the real lions bleed;

In discomfort they hunt, a discomfort you cannot concieve,

due to your lack of willpower, yet powered by greed;

You want everything effortlessly

you've never met the mental motivation,

Blaming your struggle on the world's spiteful discrimination.

But a true lion knows fate does not lie in the sense of entitlement,

it's ceaseless bloodshed even in the fields of abandonment.

The endowment of a lions heart will forever live

honoring the fight, an unwritten doctorine.

The curtains can be drawn for the catalyst within,

even for you, an undeniably implosive sin.

So I dare you,

let down your pride

and commence the prowl,

before you forget how to graze,

and perpetually foul.

 

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Comments (2)

Olomo julius oluwarotimi
This is whooo!
Darlene Gray
<p>just wow love the wording</p>

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