Animal Love

You snarl
And you bite
There's fear
In your eyes
But your cries
Say you care

If I dare
To test your lies
I get bitten
And mauled

But your sighs
They keep me
So enthralled

And then you purr
In merriment
Your laugh
Ringing
Out over the world
And you mewl
Your love
Into my ear
Croon your lust
And win my trust
With your wayward ways

I'm lost in a haze
Of longing
My eyes misting
With belonging
By the time they clear
You're long gone
On the prowl
For some other Tom

I lie awake
Listening
To the sounds of the night
Licking the wounds
That are in sight
But the ones inside
The parts that crooned
Lie desolate now
And howl
At the moon.