When we first met, you were
The warm sunlight on my face
The salt water in my hair
The colors of paint on my canvas
and the loving words I began to say to myself and others

You made me a lion
Never timid or ashamed.
I was growing like a tree
With cherry blossoms
and all the people starred with such awe
and knew that it was your power that kept me alive.

Until one day you grew
A serpent tongue that spoke monstrous words.
I became a nuisance with my love
And when I leaped you pulled me back to a step.
I became trapped in your eyes and tortured with your mind.
You threw a million shards of glass at my heart
and expected me to stand up tall.

One day I spoke the forbidden words of "Au Revoir"
and met a real lion who was ready to throw me on her back
and take me to the amazon or anywhere I pleased.
She fed me words of support and knew that
I was exotic in these native lands.

But you trampled your way back into my heart seven days later
and now I think to myself,
"If I have such grace, poise and love.
How can I allow someone to trample
all over me, and turn me into a
disarray of chaos."