Huntress

You see the thing is.. a dog won’t bite when it’s respected. Neither will a woman, though she knows that she is wild.

But challenge them both.. I dare you.

Put your fingers inside the mouth that would have licked the nectar from you,

tasting you like honeyed rain.

Find a razored tongue that can lacerate you. Find teeth that could ruin you with one bite.

Forget that nectar ferments and forget that sweetness also rots. Forget that what could have loved you, also knows exactly how to survive you.

When survival wakes, it does not beg. It will never warn you twice. It simply hunts without needing to try.

m.f

Me, 2023