CONFESSION ZERO

The Broadway theater where "The Lion King" is playing dimmed its lights Tuesday night in honor of a fallen lion cub: An 11-year-old actress from the show who lost her battle with leukemia. ( Read More ) The lion now roars, bellows his sorrow like a parent burying a child. Joy’s basin fills with a crimson grief as laughter breaks down the levees we built ahead of the storm. Her laughter, her unbridled youth, bends now in the light we seek and in the love we create. The Lion King hums, beasts honor her life with a knowledge all their own, a song of remembrance. Let us begin to sing and permit man to dream, let him bow toward hope and shepherd in a new breath upon the face of love. © 2010 by mark prime Shannon Tavarez, Broadway 'Lion King' Star, Dies Of Cancer At 11

Oh! Let your faith be yours to hold like a gentle hand freely given. Allow no thief to enter your personal temple and steal your thinking. Tolerate it’s breath, permit it’s sway in you and hold at bay any hypocrisy that stems from your tongue. Freedom is a right for all mankind, faith is a right for your own certitude, not a wedge to place between worlds or as barrier to an individual’s truth. Let us make good on our promise. Let us strive to allow all truth to blossom, all views to ascend their individuality while no man’s beliefs are extinguished. It is what is known as freedom, it is universal in its appeal, it is love’s bond with humankind and it’s personal and preserved only by the whole. © 2010 by mark prime