{"sf1_id":2137682,"sf2_id":"3eg6aLd1","title":"Lion of an Alternate Path","author":"Apolarbear17","words":218,"posted_at":"2024-05-21T02:46:36.000Z","tags":["Different Path","Lion","Poetry","Surprise Encounter","World Lion Day","life","split"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2137682-lion-of-an-alternate-path","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/3eg6aLd1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/07/91/07913d22-7175-4e6c-911e-fceb6141734d","description":"This was a poem meant for World Lion Day… which was actually yesterday at the time I posted it but I posted it that day anyway. Title says it all really and there’s also an art piece to kind of go with this that I posted(linked below). Originally posted in August 2022.   \n  \nLink to art: [https://www.sofurry.com/view/2137533](https://www.sofurry.com/view/2137533)","content":"Lion of an Alternate Path\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;By: A.X. Bueno\u0026nbsp;\n\nI should have known you were still out there somewhere\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe lion of a different path\u0026nbsp;\n\nI guess seeing you again was something of which I should have expected more\n\nAfter all I could have been you even if I don't think that's possible anymore\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd that's not a bad thing, you just happen to no longer be me\u0026nbsp;\n\nLife just took me in a different direction but it's good you're out there somewhere being free\u0026nbsp;\n\nBeing you helped me along the way to where I am now\u0026nbsp;\n\nYou were fearsome, you were powerful, you were confident and strong\u0026nbsp;\n\nBut I've found my own new ways to be those things and more when needed\u0026nbsp;\n\nStill I'm glad you've got your own life somewhere out there\u0026nbsp;\n\nYou were once a part of me after all who helped me a lot and I still care\n\nStill it shocked me when I saw you again\u0026nbsp;\n\nI didn't expect that or how quickly our encounter would suddenly end\u0026nbsp;\n\nSomehow though I think I'll manage to find and see you again\u0026nbsp;\n\nWhenever that may be I hope you're doing better than you were before you split from me\u0026nbsp;\n\nBalancing yourself out better to hide less behind a facade and surviving more easily \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;  \n\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;","series":{"name":"Theo Stories and Art","previous":"https://sofurry.com/s/0mvY4xXe","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2138352-meeting-in-that-tavern-for-the-second-encounter.json"}}