Fingers on the window sill
Tippy toes for a peek of the outside.
If you’re looking in, you’d see the top of my head
And a pair of scared eyes
I just had to see what I’ve done
A charred bridge
Still smouldering benches
Stick-insect trees
Open-top shelters
I flung dung around for fun
Taking from the air more caustic gasoline
Paid attention to me yet?
Now you’ll see what is missing

Shut the fuck up, lion! Just because I can take your conniption, doesn’t mean that I want to.

Hasten away with your foul temper.
Leave not a trace of slobber and old claws
Not a strand of itchy wiry fur on my person.
No gripping canines on steel jaws
Not unless you’re still capable of reason
Stay away from my jugular veins

To a lion who wants no show of love

Worn a mask until I despise myself forgetting who I am not
So you get the same as I see myself
No one stays deluded
If still that repulses you,
then I ask that you flush yourself down a toilet;

sublime you’ll feel as slosh in a sewer
Follow up not required.

Here we go again with that awful tantrum

I can fight you but I cannot touch you

For days my body trembles

And I wish I could eat or sleep

Universe,

I never asked to be here so don’t force me to stay

But if you must, give me your reasons

I cannot help anyone when I cannot even help myself

But if I must be called to service, tell me what and whom for?

A lion loves what he sees except his own reflection

Lion
Each time I’m hurting I search for you
To restore peace in my uneasy heart
Each time you’re hurting, you hurt me too.
growl, hiss and swipe
stop, I love you, I’ll make it better
Your mane’s all tangly and messy
You’ve drooled a little bit
A lion has no need for love
Except when he chooses another
In 3 days time you are calm,
I’ll know and lick your chin
From you, give me anything
I’m now beside you, sidling and listening
Lioness