To have a dream is to live to the full
\nTo the full I say for those
\nWho share true love with the wild wild souls
\nWho also dream and so suppose
\nTheir heritage was far away
\nIn the mists of time
\nOn another day<\/p>\n
Somehow the circus and the store
\nScooped them up right off the floor
\nAnd took them to a sinful place
\nWhich turned out to be a disgrace
\nMasirya and Nero the cherubic two
\nExisting really what was overdue
\nWas their natural life and their wishes too
\nTo Explore their roots their lifetime through
\nAffirming to each other they
\nWere swept up in a great array
\nOf love and dreams by a couple who
\nBoth were sure what they wanted to do<\/p>\n
To save the wild ones where they could
\nAs circus lost its livelihood
\nAnimals deserving a better life
\nThan ugly tricks and awful strife
\nBut what would become of animals spare
\nReally there was just no where
\nOut of the frying pan into the fire
\nOut of the circus to somewhere more dire<\/p>\n
The inventiveness and the hearts desire
\nOf this splendid couple who failed to tire
\nThey had a dream and they hoped they could
\nWork together as people should
\nSurrounding themselves with angels they
\nAttracted more angels from far away
\nFrom South Africa where land would be
\nAvailable for them to see<\/p>\n
We all have dreams as children and
\nWe make our lives and understand
\nThe meaning if shared can so be
\nWonderful for the visionary
\nSTICHTING LEEUW the sanctuary
\nA place of love and harmony
\nOf consequence and consistency
\nOf attunement into harmony
\nCare was paramount and needed too
\nFor that was really what to do<\/p>\n
As the lions matured the dream became
\nReality really a flame
\nBurning in their hearts and minds
\nAnd everyone soon saw the signs
\nWorked towards the ultimate place
\nAfrica and its smiling face
\nThe great blue skies
\nThe burning sun
\nThe place to be
\nWhen the day was done<\/p>\n
To take them home
\nTo live each stride
\nThey were inseparable
\nSide by side
\nA cohesion of the loving kind
\nThat truthfully does blow our mind
\nA lot of work would have to be
\nDone the forms the policy
\nOf getting them back
\nNo easy affair
\nAs everyone became aware<\/p>\n
A timelessness a perpetuation
\nAfrica was the great Nation
\nTwo great Lions were going back
\nPossibly on the same track
\nTheir ancestors had walked before
\nIn far off prides where more and more
\nPerhaps were captured or hunted they
\nMust have felt that longing to
\nGo back and share and try to do<\/p>\n
Their great adventure came about
\nA plane ride though there was some doubt
\nWould they be fit enough to go
\nAnd mentally strong and would they grow
\nTo understand the exhausting flight
\nWas worth it all for they felt the light
\nAround them festooning their every thought
\nKnowing in fact that they were caught<\/p>\n
Up in the moment of destiny
\nThey were flying where they would be
\nFreedom to breathe to run and to play
\nIn the great outdoors now everyday
\nThis was a chance they were waiting for
\nAfrica for evermore
\nA continuity of space
\nThe horizon more than just a trace
\nTrees to scratch on
\nAnd shade to lie
\nOut in the sun under the sky<\/p>\n
On one hand cages Lions find their way
\nInto the petting farms that pay
\nOnto the hunting canned and sure
\nCorruption from a time before
\nTrophies and sacks of lion bones sent
\nBack to the far east who have lent
\nSome ideas to the farmers who
\nBraced themselves now here to do<\/p>\n
Both journeys now including Lions
\nAnd hopefully there are more signs
\nSince Cecil met his untimely end
\nThat Africa will now defend
\nIts remaining wild souls
\nAnd let them be
\nRoaming now on land thats free<\/p>\n
A happy story of rescue here
\nTwo young souls brought back from fear
\nCaptivity is not the way
\nIts a selfish and arrogant way to pay
\nThe pipers who will take it on
\nTill every last sad soul is gone<\/p>\n
We have to thank our two friends here
\nThey inserted sense where there was fear
\nThey made it happen the cause was great
\nAnd they arranged it all at quite a rate
\nThey both represent man kind well
\nCreated a heaven from a one time hell
\nThey saw it through right to the end
\nThey could be anybody’s friend<\/p>\n
Their choice the Lions
\nA culture to
\nEnrich their lives in all they do
\nIts their wellbeing they want to see
\nA restoration of liberty
\nA reawakening of spirit for
\nActually to so restore<\/p>\n
To rejuvenate and to so reclaim
\nTheir playful and ongoing game
\nSo well loved are the rescued two
\nWho seem to know what they can do
\nThere are no compromises here
\nTheir occupancy is now clear
\nGracious living and dignity
\nAnd such affection naturally<\/p>\n
MASIRYA and NERO
\nMay you live out your lives
\nTrue to yourselves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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