The Short Inscrutable Life & Terrible Fate of the Domesticated Lion, Zimba!: Human Cruelties Of A Similar Kind

This is a story in two parts: first, it is the story of a lion cub that could fit into the palm of one's hand at birth only to grow to a two-year-old mature lion in an unnatural environment, there to be unwittingly destroyed for behaving in its innocence like a lion. Deplorable as that might be, what say we of men who exploit the trust of people who trust them? The second story deals with this "Failure of Memory" and "Failure of Conscience" as a display of human cruelties of another kind. Humans trust certain men to lead them to safety, not drive them into their own darkness. When men do, and show no shame for doing so, as they do in this story, the betrayal is as certain as that experienced by Zimba.