The Lion - Visitor's Poem

by Ellie Pope
(North Carolina, USA)

The Lion leapt through the field,
In his all too jubilant way.
And kissed a maiden's cheek,
As his path she crossed one day.

Then, when she knelt to kiss his paw,
He jerked it fast away;
For never had he kissed a cheek
That was not a meal, someday...