Every night

I sleep with a leopard

Golden pale spotted

Aura’s dotted divinity in sight.

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The Sun shone through her

With the vengeance of a thousand spurned lovers

Women from untold generations.

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Not viewing new

What the surroundings hide

Do we blame such surroundings

For accomplicing lies?

Oh the stunning print

Of the leopard’s coat

How we forget it’s for disguise.

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And her lurid eyes

Predation is not alone

Are her claws just for killing

Has not nature set the tone?

Has she asked me to join her

In roaming this great pasture

Believing we’re different?

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I cannot say I saw

Other than what was before me

I can’t say I asked

For anything less

In the end

It was all for joy and rapture

Simply because it was in our nature.