There was a lion.
There was a mouse.
Innovative and nimble,
the mouse and his associates
disrupted the power structure in the forest,
dominating in ways
the lion,
powerful, monolithic and imperial,
could not imagine.

It wasn’t long
before the mouse & silent partners
had agreed how best to manage
the incorporated forest
withholding both veto and vote from the poor old lion
who
without a position in the new regime
spent his days
reliving his glory
and asking for change.

Moral: Speed is of essence (so don’t complain about what I do in bed).