<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367311" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Leaders Of The Pack</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At first, the two wolves look the same<br>As others in the pack, <br>Yet in their hearts there burns a flame<br>That flares when they attack, <br>For Nature calls upon each one<br>To hunt when hunger strikes, <br>Then wolves beneath the setting sun<br>Do what nobody likes...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Survival's played out day and night<br>Beneath the sun and moon<br>That watch on high while creatures fight<br>And leave their bodies strewn, <br>Yet those that live must strive again<br>For hunger soon returns<br>And leaders know the moment when<br>The flame inside them burns...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The savage beasts outlive the doomed, <br>The helpless and the frail, <br>And though successes aren't assumed, <br>The leaders rarely fail, <br>For such as these are born not made<br>And conscience holds no sway, <br>For wolves are wolves when all is weighed<br>And all the world's their prey...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, March 2011.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Leaders Of The Pack'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">More Stephen Gayford poems here: <br>denis-martindale-dot-blogspot-dot-com</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denis+Martindale">Denis Martindale</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367311" data-title="Leaders Of The Pack de Denis Martindale" data-description="At first, the two wolves look the same As others in the pack, Yet in their hearts there burns a flame That flares when they attack, For Nature calls upon each one To hunt when hunger strikes, Then wolves beneath the setting sun Do what nobody l..."></div> </div> </div>

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