Why Not Lie With the Wolf?

Why Not Lie With the Wolf?

A Poem by Gabi

A pale sheep named morality

begs you not to snap it’s neck.

Down on your luck you’ve gone and sold your soul to a cheat

but you are no victim

and your beast is only one tooth shy of a 

monster’s bite. 

So why not lie with the wolf? 

He swears he’ll make you feel free.

Flea-bitten, he coaxes you to rest at his side

shows you what it is to be addicted to life and limb

to the metallic tang of blood

and the acrid scent of cigarette smoke.

So why not lie with the wolf?

Together you scream songs at a half moon

your glass half empty 

his half full. 

So why not lie with the wolf?

He makes you feel alive.

So what if he tears you up

so long as he seals each cut with a kiss…?

So what if he snaps his jaws at you 

whenever he is feeling weak?

…. He only made you bleed once…

So what if you wonder 

where he goes when he is not with you?

When he touches you, he feels like home.

You hold onto that thought tightly, until you hear a slight crack.

Morality never looked so weak as it did in that moment

with your fingers locked around it’s slender neck.

It’s pleas would grow quiet

and a cloak of desperation 

would wrap itself around you as you knelt beside it.
When you made it home that night, you would stare at your own reflection,

but only see the wolf behind your eyes. 

© 2017 Gabi


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