What Is A Lion Doing On A Roof?

I've had just enough time...   to feel for the lion on the roof

Taken of the lion on the roof in a small street in Malacca

I saw a lion on a roof

What is a lion doing on a roof?

I’ve no idea

It had seen better days

That I’m sure

Now left to the weather

Its days are numbered

But I felt

It rather be on the roof

Than in a dark attic

Among the dust and forgotten things

Here it watches the crowd below

They used to watch him roar

But no one looks up now

They are too busy finding their ways

I saw the lion on the roof

It is slowly fading away

You Will Never Know What It Is Like To Be Me

I've had just enough time to...   try to feel what it is like to be someone I'm not

Taken while strolling through the street of Munich

I stood apart from the crowd

You won’t understand the feelings

You have not been there

But you thought you did

I took those well meaning sympathies

For what they are – well meaning

But don’t try to tell me you understand

It only pained me though I smiled

If you are three feet tall

Have a white face, pointed nose

And wear a tall red cap

Then tell me –

You know what it is like to be me

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Five For Fighting - Superman (It's Not Easy)

An Island of My Own.

I've had just enough time to...   wish to retire to an island of my own.

Taken of a private island not my own in Tanah Merah Lake, Perak, Malaysia.

Out there I know

An island waits patiently,

For me to come home.

Each day

Squeezing through the crowd,

I am an island of my own.

The clock ticks

And with each impatient minute,

I heard my island calling me home.

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No man is an island,

No man stands alone,

Each man's joy is joy to me,

Each man's grief is my own.

We need one another,

So I will defend,

Each man as my brother,

Each man as my friend.

- John Donne