Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks August 2015 (Collaboration) | Page 34

The Tigress
Mel White
The power and poise in her stride;
the confident toss of her head;
the hunger that simmered inside.
He longed to approach
but she could tear him to shreds.
He stalked the prowling tigress
addicted to her rage.
She directed his dreams,
he couldn’t rest or digress
till he’d put her in a cage.
He clipped her claws,
he filed her teeth,
extracted the venom from the snake.
To prove his superiority
her spirit had to break.
Intoxicated by his need to possess,
he didn’t realise that
once he’d collared the tigress
and muted