Love Poem: Call of the Wild
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Written by: Mark Matthews

Call of the Wild

And so
    my mind wanders
back to that night,
under the full moon,
when I grasped
    at your hair
pulling your 
           head back.
With muscles tensing,
and my claws
ripping at your skin,
I open my mouth
and close my jaws
on your throat,
scraping at your delicious
skin with my canines.

Fighting with
    every inch of humanity
to not tear your skin,
    and joyously drink
down your blood,
I feel your body
pleasantly quiver and undulate
in my arm,
and your purring
resonates in my ears.

Do your still 
hear these thoughts
in your dreams,
do these images
still skim across
your consciousness,
does the residue
of my blood
still cling 
             to your lips,
and does that
bronzy taste
sit on the
             back of your tongue?
It does for me.
And yes....
    I still feel
my lionesss' hair
   curled around
              my claws.

My beasts 
of this realm,
fill my ears
with your questions,
as I howl my feelings
into the moonlit night.
Do you hear it,
as a chip of alabaster
falls from the ever-present
crack in my heart.