Caught Antlers    by  Richard G Beyer

Hung in this tangle
of branches and limbs
I am the trapped stag
struggling, barking
eyes blown wide
with the fatal terror
of my entanglement.

A hungering wolf
you close in on my
vulnerable loins
ready to hamstring
to devour my flesh
in slow motion scenes
of free flowing blood
frenzied screaming
ravaging and ripping
the vivid tearing
the guttural growl
your slobbering mouth
my dark final ecstasy.

© Richard G Beyer