Fulvio Gonella
Along the Castle gate
Burns a fire that never ends It’s the Tiger, it’s the Tiger
That the world of Dreams defends.
No one is allowed against my will
I’m the Ka and the Tiger is me. Friends will get in
Enemies paralyzed in fear will be.
There goes the Tiger walking
Fiercely with her burning eyes
Ready to fight a million foes
Or brightly welcome my allies
I was there (I always am) that time
When a young dream arrived
It was scared and almost fading
With no one left by its side
An army of Nightmares was behind it
When the Tiger with a jump
Made the bad dreams turn away
And sent them to the dump.
“Why you here?” Tiger asked.
“I’m a dream of peaceful land
Full of trees and ponds and birds
Till the nightmares had me banned
I resisted, yes I did
To protect him from anguish
But the man was desperate
And here you see me languish”.
To the Castle go and heal
I will hold the nightmares off
When you seize his nights again
I’ll oust his foes with a cough
So the happy land restored
The dream back to its place
The man healed and recovered
With a big smile on his face.