His Majesty, King of Beasts.

Oh heard of elephants as you walked by in this thick forested jungle,
Peircing eyes of your wildcat foes stared back like marbles in a bundle,
Baby lions shiver in fear beside mother lioness, heard their rumbling,
Lions grumbled unheard, while other cats dashed for cover stumbling. 

The King of beast who drove fear in many speices of the jungle,
sought refuge in the bushes from stampeding elephants humbled,
Then father lion the King growled and roared in with an angry chant,
Never was there in his sight so much unruly elephants!
Startling the elephants who increased speed with a bigger stampede,
Tigers, leopards, jaguars and apes scampered and couldn't feed,
Their little ones were hungry, loud noise dispersed their prey,
This was a day like no other the jungle has betrayed.

Lions roared again in satisfaction and gave chase to the stampeding crowd,
Elephants panicked with greater speed and an enormous dusty cloud,
Huge mom and daddy elephants who were statrled by the lions growls,
Unsettled all the lizards, rabbits, birds of prey and every moving fowl,
Observant elephants, stopped looked and realized there's no need to flee,
Suddenly they stopped in the bushes under this gigantic tree.

The lions ponderered weather to attack their persued foes,
Their persuit came to a sudden end, bravery toppled like dominoes,
Fierce lions though the king of beasts paused to contemplate,
Weather it's worth the trampling that would seal their fate,
Roaring lions, kings of beasts, acknowledged their limitations,
Heading for their thickly forested home among the highest trees,
Today was a day the king of beasts could make no decrees.   


The Poemeater, 2011.

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