Animal Comparative

Animal,

To whom do you caress with such vitality,
In a land of scorn and infinite notoriety
The nightly passion in my sweaty palms
Dances with you until the morning calms

Animal, I feel you breathe upon my chest
Heart pumping juices, overflowing my breast
And a joy that made haste with a murky shroud
That developed everlasting prayer in my lonely cloud

For tenderness I abolished since birth I quote
From a nameless moral that jangled my boat
It took without cause, undid all my rations
And it said, in the most cruelest of fashions,

"Relinquish thy faith, for the mighty are sworn
To spew forth sacrifice and forever be torn.
Until the endless fabrics of unity be truest

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poem by Nick Patrick
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