Your Animal Kingdom

If I was... 
Slick like a snake,
Brave like a lion,
Swift like a falcon,
Would you welcome me to your animal kingdom?
Hand me a throne of birch...
And a crown of roots...
Feed me mushrooms after the rain...
And tuck me in soil in the winter...?
If I was...
Small like a mouse,
Slow like a turtle,
Vulnerable like a bee,
Would I be shunned?
Shoved aside?
Pushed out of nature ?
To belong to some other kingdom
Of the lesser ones,
Of the ones who don't belong
To your kingdom.
To your family.
To your tribe.
The ones who nobody would want to 
Belong to
Or Long to be.


To belong
To your kind of nature,
To be a queen
In your type of kingdom,
To be natural 
In your version of nature,
I would have to be a million of things
But the one thing I could not be is 
Be myself.
Be the animal 
I was born to be
The animal that is
Me.

*'The Gobi Desert' by Natasha Durley