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Definitely has your own voice coming through but it immediately threw me into The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke.

That world weariness of a predator. A lion amongst sheep.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Franco Amati

Wow What a perfect metaphor for your experience.

I have always felt a kinship with these captured beasts.

Your poem helps me to understand why.

Thank-you.

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May 3, 2023Liked by Franco Amati

Sad and yet so encouraging and relatable. Bravo.

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May 5, 2023Liked by Franco Amati

I have certainly been that tiger - as old age encroaches, I sense THAT cage erecting itself around me. So what I'm endeavoring to do is change my perspective, deeper my gaze inward as I am 'forced' to let go of outward. Hope this isn't too much a downer. It's actually liberating - the Acceptance

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This is why I never visit the cat houses at zoos. That pacing is so unbearably sad. Beautiful poem.

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I saw it as a real tiger in a zoo, except that the real dangerous animal is surely a human; a man, really : )

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"And it’s an unbearable pain sometimes to really think too much about it."

I would call it despair ... that void I try to escape.

Beautiful piece, Franco 🤍

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