Beasts

By Preeti Arra

I water a seed every day

Soon find out I was growing a beast

One day when ripe, it'll stake me for sport

Simply because I inconvenience the boar

But i continue to love the beast,

Knowing, soon enough I'll be its feast

I love and love

I love more than i need to

I love cause i must

Give blood it won't heed to

But I live in fear

Not that it'll smite me

No, I pray for that

I fear it'll love me

I fear I won't love it

I fear it'll be lovely.

So my lapses bring terror

I sympathize with the ghast

It's warmth haunts me

I forgive the present and the past

I justify it's cruelty

The beast can't love me back,

I won't survive it

It'll hurt much worse than the stab.

By Preeti Arra