A Fable

A Fable

Do you bark like a dog

At the sight of a pretty woman

Boasting in supposed cleverness about your possessions

All the things you have to offer

Your money, your career, your car

Your stamina, your body, your talents

Bark, bark, bark

 

Or do you lay down and roll over at that same woman

Pledging your allegiance before you bother to know her

Happy to receive and be a loyal puppy to her

Better if she has no children of her won

Her adoption of you so much sweeter

 

Do you bark to keep her in fear

So that you can keep her

Do you bark at others to stay away

So you can posses her

 

Do you want to come and go

So long as there is something in it for you

Have her be your meat and just dog her

 

Don’t know about you

But I have been a kitten

At the mercy

 

Have been a cat all too quick to purr at hands

Leaving behind my whiskers

Antennas of intuition

Caring not whose hands they were

 

Have preferred them dogs

Just so to give a rest to that hiss that comes

When them dogs have no backbone

 

Have been an alley cat too

Too timid to walk along the sidewalk

Yet magnetized them barking dogs

Like the sun’s rays do to the cats fur

 

I wonder

Like a cat meditating in a day dream

I wonder about them humans

 

I wonder