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The Tiger

Amanda L. Graves

What is this feeling inside?

I feel like a tiger locked in a cage

With the need to get out.

Eventually, even the calm, passive tiger loses it

And snaps at the hand that feeds it.

And that will lead to the tiger's destruction.

I snap at the hand that feeds me.

Not food, but affection

             Support

                        Friendship

I keep biting.

And I lose that hand forever.

I need these hands to pet me

And make me feel loved.

This tiger locked up

              Wanting freedom......

Harm not the hand that feeds you,

Lest you want your freedom back.