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
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