Copyright © Leanne. P. Smith.
3rd July 2013
This is my poetic take on a scene from The Lion King—my favourite Disney movie. This scene always makes me tear up and I wanted to try and get that into the poem. I hope it's emotive enough for you =) If you want to add to the experience, I linked a piece of the soundtrack (Hans Zimmer's amazing music!) in the Multimedia section .
Run Away
There's too much pain for my innocent heart.
I'm shaking. I'm breaking. I'm falling apart.
"Get up, Dad," I beg him. "We've gotta' go home."
Don't leave me, I think. Don't leave me alone.
He lies still and broken; my voice goes unheard.
Here in the silence, nothing has stirred.
Desperate, I shake him. I try to be brave.
Reality gathers, and then crashes the wave.
"Help!" I scream out, a last futile act.
I bound through the dust. My courage has cracked.
"Somebody! Anybody!" I can't be alone.
I'm but left with echoes, and pain never known.
So, there I break, and at last come the tears.
I lie down beside him, alone with my fears.
For a moment I dream to extinguish the pain.
It's so hard to breathe, but we're together again.
Then, from the gloom, a dark shape takes form.
I blink and I shudder. Grief rises sickly and warm.
...There stands my uncle. I stutter to explain.
And yet, for my efforts, all are in vain.
He knows it's my fault.... The grief starts to spread...:
"What have you done? ...The king is dead...."
Guilt takes the anguish, and drives it to burn.
"Run away..." he tells me, "...and never return."
This is my fault. The thought is a thorn.
He'd still be alive if I'd never been born.
Horror chokes me and blinds me; I know I can't stay.
I turn and I run. I run far away.
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(Do you cry at this scene in the movie? I do. My heart!)
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