Wild,
The scent
Of a boy
Too close to see
The fear in her face
Lion catches a deer,
Willing deer, caught in his eyes.
Mistakes his bites on her neck for
Kisses, these are dangerous kisses.
The lion boy has the deer girl ensnared.
He has fallen in love with the deer,
Predator loves his sweet, soft prey
She’s not like the other deer.
And yet, she is. Fragile,
Beautiful, naïve.
Predator still…
One bite would…
It’s not…
Sweet…
The scent
Of a girl
Too close to see
The blood on his teeth,
The death smell of his breath.
Stupid lion has fallen
For the deer he would have eaten…
If it weren’t for those dark, sweet eyes.
Her deer eyes can see right through the lion.
In a tender embrace, the lion breaks…
His hold on the deer’s neck, though he
Would kill to place human kisses
On the hollow of her throat.
Those dangerous kisses.
He wants to run away,
A killer’s lips
But the deer…
Sweet deer…
Prey.
Shake the
Thoughts of death.
I am in control.
Damn the deer, damn…
The deer caught a lion.
By the graze of her neck on
Bloody teeth that killed her sisters.
She looks at his eyes, not the teeth that
Have committed so many transgressions,
What do deer know of the weight of sins?
King of the Jungle is humbled.
What do lions know of mercy?
She sighs against his neck,
Dangerous kisses.
The lion finds,
Forgiveness
In the
Deer.
Author notes
based on a little personal thing. Forbidden love, as cliche as it sounds. heh. enjoy.
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Deer must die for lions must eat. In their close encounters each struggles to live, but only one may. In that moment when the deer dies or breaks away from the hungry lion who's to say that there is no engagement of minds between predator and prey? In some human cultures, hunters make sincere apologies to the game they take for food, promising to live well in return for the sacrifice of the other's life. I will not say the hunter is wrong or this poet is too romantic.
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Deer must die for lions must eat. In their close encounters each struggles to live, but only one may. In that moment when the deer dies or breaks away from the hungry lion who's to say that there is no engagement of minds between predator and prey? In some human cultures, hunters make sincere apologies to the game they take for food, promising to live well in return for the sacrifice of the other's life. I will not say the hunter is wrong or this poet is too romantic.
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this was amazing it was almost like drum music as i read it getting faster and faster
let that be a lesson to all you lions, youre no match for the right deer 
awesome!!
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thank you.
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