CAREFUL WATCH

Two lion cubs were quite alone,
No parents were close by,
So there they waited, on their own,
Beneath the clear blue sky...
They both looked left, they both looked right,
As careful watch they kept,
On anything that stood in sight,
Or anything that crept...

Because the other cub was close,
They both would form a bond,
As if each life the other owes,
For now and years beyond...
A partnership was bound to be,
The other to defend,
But sweeter than mere family,
With each, the other's friend...

For now, the fragile felines stayed
As they surveyed the land,
As both their parents they obeyed
And tried to understand...
Yet one day, too, as lions learn,
Their time could come real soon,
When to their young cubs they return,
Some sunny afternoon...


Denis Martindale, copyright, September 2013.


The poem is based on the magnificent painting
by Stephen Gayford called 'Careful Watch'.


More Stephen Gayford poems here:
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