Secret Feelings

It was an early spring morning when I was born. I had dark auburn hair and green eyes and, as I understand, I had some pretty healthy lungs. It was a time when my mother was very unhappy about having a baby. Her dream was to be an actress and she felt that my coming into the world would just destroy her dreams. She was a beautiful woman with long black hair and big brown eyes. She wasn’t happy with my father, nor was she happy with her parents. But there I was, and as I have been told, I wasn’t so happy about being here. I think I knew right from the start that things could be tough for me and my gift.

During the recovery time, after giving birth to me, there suddenly appeared the figure of a lioness at the foot of the bed. “Oh, my God, what is that” my mother screamed as the nurses came running down the hall followed by my grandparents, and soon after the doctor. I was told that all of them saw the apparition of the lioness and my mother asked all the witnesses in the room to document what they had seen. The lioness disappeared within moments and all that witnessed it was beginning to doubt what they saw. Of course my mother felt justified in letting me go home with my grandparents, as this was surely a bad omen. She was very superstitious and did not want anything unusual to interfere in her life. No one could ever explain the apparition and it remains a mystery to this day. Perhaps you can decide the true meaning after you read the story of my “secret feelings”