How Other Would I Love You Fi

How Other Would I Love You Fi

jan 2020

jp melville

Ears perked, the wild calls

Never heard behind our concrete walls

The pacing takes your beast only back

To metal bars, to retrace your track.

You gad without aim relentlessly

Spurred forward by muscle

With endless pent energy

Tingling across cell walls.

A tail flits sideways and then up

To balance each step restrained

Neck slung low, watching

Carrying each pad silently, alert, ahead.

You peer forward then to the side

Dark ebony liquid eyes glistening
Beckoning preternaturally beyond where there's no understanding yet

Searching for a feeling.

Your breath comes measured

Moist nostrils flare slowly, chest swells

Breathing deeply gently fall away, easy

Calming nerves of steel.

Then the gloss black brown of your oiled flank

Swims before my eyes as you turn away to repeat the endless cycle of your hunt,
Disappearing in your caged darkness,
Blood pounds coursing through veins loins yours and mine

A burning vengeful, rancoured force.

How other would I love you, Fi?