A LITTLE CHAT

Could you have a little chat

With a hungry hyena

Or a prowling cheetah?

Would you say“Good to meetya?

”Before he’d eatya?

When a pack of dogs

Spends years

To burrow countless lairs

From which to pounce

At you

With ferocity

Complicity

Would you stroke their ears?

Would you try to stop them

With your tears?

Would you dare?

Would they care?