Mmmmmm... Just Right!!

A twisted retelling of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"

Three familial bears out and about
for the cooling of the porridge
came bumbling back to their humble cottage,
innocent and ignorant
of the domicile's defiled nature.
Discovery of the break in
inspires roaring and shouting
and declamations of outrage.
A cry for the chairs and disgust
over snacked upon breakfast
finds them upstairs gazing stupefaction
at the tangled, twig infested
mop of blond hair fanned across
that goose feather pillow.
Waking the small figure
laying so peacefully
brings forth the most dire of consequences.

Round and round rolls the rhythm
of rotisserie.
Flames in a stranger's hearth
crackle spatter dance to a succulent
bruin's rump roast,
seared to darkling perfection.
Sliced away with sharpest blade,
brought trembling in starving anticipation,
teeth rending through bear flesh,
a bite explosive with flavors divine.
"Now this one is done... just right!"

The forest outside a humble bear's cottage
is silent in reverence to the hunted.