The Animal [December 21, 2010]

My first poem. I wrote it in high school when I was bored, and it's where everything started for me.

Thunder roars in the distance

His sense of loneliness deepens

He wishes he could feel emotion

But Animal knows only instinct

He senses the approaching storm

And with it, the wrath of God

The animal tries to escape from his fury

But instead

Is consumed in his own living hell

 

The Animal cannot stop

The rampage

It tries to survive

But cannot

It wants to end its hunger

But cannot catch its prey

It tries for love

But feels none

 

The clouds start to swell

With the sorrow of a thousand tears

She cries

She feels the mist in her heart

The ground at her feet

Her beauty is unmatched

But it will not save her

She turns around

And sees the storm coming

She knows she cannot escape her destiny

For she is destiny’s child

 

The clouds roll over her

They embrace her

Consume her

From the darkness of the storm

The animal appears before her

And like the sun in all its fiery fury

He pulls her into the storm

Hoping to end the hunger

That consumes him

  

Into the darkness they go

Forevermore

They sink lower and lower

Forevermore

To the darkest region of the abyss

Forevermore

Into the heart of the storm

Forevermore

Their fates collide

Nevermore

 

The animal consumes her in his wrath

Sorrow meets with anger

She becomes part of the creature

Neither living, nor dying

The animal knows by instinct

The storm is almost over

He knows and embraces it

 

Lightning flares in the sky

As the Animal begins to die

A new life is created in the heavens

Dampening the wrath of God

The Animal senses his own destruction

And finally starts to feel her emotion

Her sorrow and his anger fuse

 

The beast beats upon the storm

Backing anger into a corner

The Animal beats upon the storm

And starts to fade

The creature beats upon the storm

And the clouds shatter into rain

The boy and her soul within beat upon

The last remaining tendrils of the storm

And reveal to the world

A light brighter than the fury of

“The Animal”