Welcome to the Jungle

You trim your mane and pluck your eyebrows,
Make no mistake you're in the animal kingdom
You mask your odour with perfumes and powders
Having found newer ways of marking your territory

You talk of love and everlasting friendship
Your selfish heart fumes at my attention to another
Make up your mind, give me your love
Or take away everything but dependence
It is customary for hunters to cut away feathers
Have no doubt, they are hunters not lovers

You laugh at love, scorn any promises of permanence
Yet you yearn for someone to say 'forever'
You hold vigil all your life for 'the one'
Someone who will consume you with ardour, day and night
Irony is you are terrified when faced with such love,
Heard of the proverbial dog chasing a car, my friend?

You covet the tigress, you envy her stripes
You long to be in her brave and majestic tribe
Yet you keep the company of cackling hyenas by day,
Laughing with derision at her solitary ways,
Slipping away one moonless night you eat her hunt,
Alas, eating her leftovers will never make your spots stripes