<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577032" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lion Never Sleeps</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Lion watches its prey</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's the pursued and the pursued<br>But which is which<br>As Nature plays<br>The game</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes the hunter<br>Becomes the prey<br>Not knowing that<br>What is most apparent, Isn't at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Until in the final moment<br>The game is revealed<br>And the aggressor is<br>Captured, ending the play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The nesting osprey<br>Need feed the hungry mouths<br>And pursues fish in the still waters<br>Of the nearby pond.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But neither a fish too large nor too small<br>Will be selected for the nestling's hungry malls<br>So the osprey circles overhead<br>Watching the larger fish pursue the small.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She selects the one<br>Near the surface for her quick<br>Descent and snatch<br>Away from the panicked school</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And with a flutter of strong wings<br>The talons grasp the unsuspecting one<br>That till the moment was the<br>One pursuing the ones that flee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Away she struggles with her catch<br>Back to the nestlings <br>Where this fish will add to their growing hunger, <br>Till they emerge to catch their own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the lion never sleeps.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sidi+J.+Mahtrow">Sidi J. Mahtrow</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=577032" data-title="The Lion Never Sleeps de Sidi J. Mahtrow" data-description="The Lion watches its prey It's the pursued and the pursued But which is which As Nature plays The game Sometimes the hunter Becomes the prey Not knowing that What is most apparent, Isn't at all. Until in the final moment The game is revealed An..."></div> </div> </div>

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