Jake's Dream
Through the darkness crept
An insubstantial shadow
Though the beast was calm and silent,
Inside there burned a fire.
Golden eyes searched for what it desired most,
Prey.
Ahead, a stumbled footstep, a gasped breath.
The tiger inside smiled.
Closer, ever closer
On silent paws
And then, the perfect moment,
The prey insight, unaware, unprepared.
With brutal grace the tiger surged forward.
The intensity in his eyes blazing.
But then the world stopped
And waited.
Roles reversed.
Switched.
Fear overwhelmed unmasked power,
Confidence flooded through terror.
Predator now prey,
Hunted now hunter.
And then time resumed...