definegodliness:There is light, I sleepWhere warmth can hardly reach the skinOnly to breatheWill...

definegodliness:

There is light, I sleep
Where warmth can hardly reach the skin
Only to breathe
Will you ever find me surfacing
When my eyes open, you’ll know that I

See

Pierce right through each veil
Of obscurity

Mine is the hunger of unfathomable depths
Solely scars reveal that I eat

And I hunger, I hunger

The darkness awaits my reign
The unstoppable force of my limitless rage
Hide now, soft creatures
Meek killers

I hunger

And, you
Await my return
When I resurface to breathe
Content and well fed, docile in light
Where warmth can hardly reach the skin

Let me behold you

That I may drift away for a second
In memories of earth-bound

Existence

—
5-5-2021, M.A. Tempels © “… poem for my favourite animal.”