Jess Ica Poet Narrative

Nature of the beast

The hunter's child was known to be curious.
Almost everyday you could hear his mother say, 
"My dear boy, curiosity killed the cat"
He never took her words to heart.
What he saw as his greatest flair was soon to be his fatal flaw.

On a sunny afternoon,  he took a walk into the forest.
On and on he went,following  a certain trail.
His father's words rang in his ears,
'Never stray from the path'.

He came across a tiny bundle underneath a foot stump.
A newly born cub lay wrapped around with leaves.
To his left and to his right, its mother was not
So he picked the cub up and took it home.

Oh his mother screamed.
His father groaned.
His friends looked at him in awe.
"You are a big hero!"
"I wish to be as brave as you"

His father's took him aside one evening,
"My dear son, what do you wish to do with it?"
"Father, I named it Cubby! 
We shall be best friends till the end of days. "
"My boy, it is not a puppy, when cubs grow and become lions, they do not bow to anyone."
"I shall succeed papa! Succeed i shall!"

And so the cub grew under the care of our curious boy.
Bigger and stronger because it's best friend fed him well.
All the kids in the village admired him.
All the adults were proud of him.

But one day ,the hunter and his wife had  gone to church.
On their return they saw their boy laying in his own pool of blood.
The young lion was nowhere to be found.
His mother wailed, "It has killed my boy!
That gnarly beast has killed my boy!!"
His father bundled him up and took him to the village healer.

A week later, the young boy woke up.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"It is a miracle you survived boy."
The village healer scolded.
But the boy was distraught and cried,
"I failed papa, I could not train the cub."
His father's smiled, and holding him close to his heart he said,
"My dearest boy, it is not failure if you live to fight another day"

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