ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS

ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS

You are alone in this wilderness world

You watch, you see

Observing from a distance

It’s cold out there

In that wide expanse

You know this massiveness

You were born to it

This is your territory

Where you wander aimlessly

Looking for what next

Who is your prey, your quarry or the next victim?

Your next vulnerable target

Your eyes are fixed, like you are obsessed

Watching as a single wolf moves

There at your safe distance

You take cover with your shield

There at the forests edge

Where the shadows lay

This is your darkness

Your domain, your circle and realm

You never venture from this great darkness

Unless there is a gain

You have to have that wolf, regardless, no matter what!

You are playing a dangerous game

What is there to gain?

There is no love there, or is the wolf a possession

Your prize, your trophy

What if there were others to win her?

This is a dangerous game

The hunter on the prowl

Must have, got to have

Here and now!

What will happen to that wolf?

Will she see right through you?

Maybe she is not stupid or a fool

And not want to play those games at all

The dangers, the perils, the hazards too

Of being possessed like a fool

Her freedom, her liberty gone

But there in the distance he sees an Alpha Male

She has noticed too, never wanting or needing

To be part of this charade, the pretense and the travesties

She walks in another direction

Leaving them both behind

Alone in the wildernesses

Knowing she has a better life instead

ELSEWHERE

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

23^rd July 2013

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