MUSIC
POETRY
2010
PRESS
NARRATION
ABOUT US
COMEDY
Statue of an Enraged Lion
Who condemned your savage spirit to stone
and chiseled your features—then left you alone?
He squashed your pride and though you hardly age,
inside this stony hide you burst with rage,
but hell, you won’t give up—you’d rather die!
Your mighty roar is now a marble cry:
For many centuries you’ve wished him hell.
To hell he’ll go—your bulging eyes can tell!
He sculpted all the anger in your eye,
but if you can’t unleash your wrath and try
to tear this hulking shape apart and rise
triumphant from your bitter years in stone,
how will you shred his arrogant renown
and grasp what lions would consider wise?
© 2004 Freddy Niagara Fonseca
Published in the Eclectic Muse, Richmond, B.C., Canada in 2004
I saw an angel in the stone and carved to set it free.
—Michelangelo
Design and copyright 2009 Freddy Niagara Fonseca
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