Day 163 of the 365 day poem challenge.
Word of the day (one I know, but it has a second recognised meaning) jungle meaning: "a situation or place of bewildering complexity or brutal competitiveness."
Jungle
It's a jungle out there
Dog eat dog
The ferns and the canopy
Keeping it all dark black
Concealed ambiguous
It's always night
It's always hidden
It's always intangible
It's always hard and thorny with the barbs cutting and clawing
There is life here
It has a beating pulse of flame and hunger and frenzy
There are vast and sly faces and mouths
All the better to chow down
There is a moment when there is only delight beneath the eaves
Before you soon discover
Lower your guard and the predators will have you
They will have you
Then you'll be lost amongst the tall breathing darkness
There are no screams just the
Deafening beating of cicadas wings
Howling into the absence of life
The seeming cavernous void
Where you used to be.
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