WALKING WITH PRIDE

WALKING WITH PRIDE

This is not an aggressive walk

Nor an attacking walk

This is just my walk

That I walk with pride

Striding along

Head held high

Walking straight

With a bounce in my step

Feeling good

The day is good

The weather is good

And all the pride

Is enjoying the sun

No rain

On my mane

So hate that rain

I get matted and knotted

Takes ages to dry

Then there is the preening

Cleaning

I mean it has to be done

Cannot stop being the best

The leader of the pride

Cannot ignore this handsome fella

Now there is no ego in me

Just saying …….

I just need to keep in

Tip top condition

For the ladies

And the cubs

A mans has got to do

What a man’s got to do

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

18^th May 2012

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CASCADING

CASCADING

Cascading years and fears

Downwards flows

Washing away the fears and tears

Washing away the wasted years

The rocking, rocking rocks

That has toppled, collapsed, tumbled

Your world

Tattered, battered, shattered

As you have slid and slided

Way down in the depths

Of despair

But down there in the despair

There is a light a shining

Shining so bright, maybe just a glimmer to you and I

But it is there within the tumbled weeds

The moss the stones, the grit and grime

That has gathered over time

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

1^st April 2013

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