Empathy entwined in cruelty
A highly malleable substance
It contracts in the most spectacular moments
It expands when agony rears its head
Ever-lingering in the most miserable circumstances
Never to be found when so desperately needed
Crunching tight in the most frantic instances
Stretching over infinite plains in the darkest storm1
Akin with so many a manmade apparatus
It is meant to be controlled and quantified
As with so many a manmade device
It takes charge of the weak of spirit and will
Along with so many a manmade implement
It evolves into a serpentine form2
It coils and entraps
It bites and poisons
It opens wide and devours
It slithers and disappears3
Where is the cunning scientist to rein in this strange element?
Where is the fearless wrangler to defang this viper?
A contest entry
- I LOVE POETRY! by Sgs.
350 points, ended October 3, 2008, 118 entries
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