Mar 2020
Tigers come at night and sweep through women's dreams.
Elephants and leopards watch as tigers grab their prey.
They say a tiger is in every man who roars when he's excited.
When tigers stalk, women weep in deep, deep sleep while shedding
tears of fear.
Women walk cautiously through darkened dreams and sometimes
scream when feeling they're the prey.
When morning comes, tigers leave alone the deer and boar.
Women survive night's long foreboding. They then awake and
leave their dreams in lands distant and forgotten.
Women do not remember tigers come at night when shine
of sun brings forth another day of happiness and hope.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
Elephants and leopards watch as tigers grab their prey.
They say a tiger is in every man who roars when he's excited.
When tigers stalk, women weep in deep, deep sleep while shedding
tears of fear.
Women walk cautiously through darkened dreams and sometimes
scream when feeling they're the prey.
When morning comes, tigers leave alone the deer and boar.
Women survive night's long foreboding. They then awake and
leave their dreams in lands distant and forgotten.
Women do not remember tigers come at night when shine
of sun brings forth another day of happiness and hope.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He recently finished his novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
