Poem Sue – The Lion Inside

If I could be an animal ….what would I want to be …. 
First one I think of is a bird …able to fly …feeling free … 

Or I would want to be a Lion …beautiful and strong .. 
One with nature ….to nature I would belong … 

Or a butterfly ….popping out …and spreading my wings … 
How I wished I would be able to do all these things … 

One with the wind ….drifting away … 
No need for just one place to stay … 

But thinking about my life …and all the changes I’ve been through .. 
Ready with one thing …and again starting something new… 

The struggles that I’ve made the fighting that I’ve done… 
Finally facing things …no more need to run …. 

Trying to climb up again …after each time I fall …. 
Makes me think , maybe there’s a Lion inside of me after all …. 

That leaves one more thing that I would want for me …
Born Free ….Live Free …Stay Free ….and Die Free ….. 

Sue, 14–07-2005

Bron: Email Sue©Loes Raaphorst 12/2006