Scared Animal
There is a shadow under your skin
Cells hardened like a clenched fist
A shadow under your chest-
In the throat of an angry hour under a sunken breath
The doctor grins, administers language into your veins
A grey growth, seed planted into your flesh, waiting to give birth to a perfect death
In your ears, you hear scratching against cement walls

Look at yourself in the mirror and weigh the odds
How much do you know yourself?
If you could only discern the voice in your blood
Guilty or Not-Guilty- you stand under this imperious hand, the golden throat
Guilty or not Guilty. Body pressed against a sieve

You know now that there is nothing more dangerous than a scared animal