ANIMAL
I am a simple animal,
a caged animal,
a rabid animal,
tamed,
a total animal.
I live in the jungle,
that ruthless jungle,
where I bite, where I scratch,
a total animal, a tamed animal.
A big cat, a dusty lion, dangerous,
your ears are in danger, the conventional is in danger,
I am from the jungle, and I fight to survive.
Where the sharp knives are,
where life is too hard,
there I go disguised as a person,
a lovely big kitten.
With my sharp senses,
with my Martian antennas,
I am a king in this strange world,
the king of camouflage to do the difficult,
the most difficult in the Wild West,
I am the king, I am all love,
the emperor of love.
I sharpen my fangs,
I bite you,
wild,
to suck
that love and be reborn
in the world of love,
where blood is love.
Love in bites,
even if you don’t want it,
I will poison your love,
and I will be the beast that loves you,
love everywhere,
I will distill the unknown love,
and I will turn that love eternal,
while I transform into a tiger,
to eat your love, and love you,
I am the love that lives to love,
to suck that intrepid love.
I will transform your love into beauty,
that love will have no end,
it will be my magical elixir
to live forever
in love
diluted,
in letters,
in a beast
deformed of syllables,
in that love that defies everything,
that surprising love of a beast of love,
that breaks hearts even if it is an old and decrepit beast,
it is the love that turns me into a beast to eat,
that love I am always thirsty for,
I am the unstoppable beast of love,
I will enslave love
in fierce
verses.
I turn the poison of love
into love diluted in blood,
in bloody words
that distill love
from so much loving
in the jungle.
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Author:
Carlos Alberto BUSTILLOS (
Offline) - Published: June 20th, 2026 06:22
- Category: Love
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It is the impossible juxtaposition of love and violence that captures thought and the mind but there is a violent emotional force that is so forceful as is love itself. It is also the forcing of love that is paradoxical and how love itself makes no sense that all come together in an emotive piece that captures the animalistic aspect of love and thereby the metaphor. A clever well written fave
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