Jungle

The world is embraced by a jungle that swallows
Everything that enters it,
And if a man isn’t careful,
He becomes an animal, that lives there,
I imagine, one in each hand,
The man, and in the other,
The creature,
And they seem so similar, in their actions, and in the emotions,
The man has a drive to survive, as does the dog,
And a snake, isn’t afraid to bite, at the loss of others,
The man, a ravaged beast, that wearily crouches, an instinct gained from experience,
His face covered by the dark, and his heart is like the unreachable,
And this is what I fear,
To become a part of the jungle, and become as death,
My deepest terror,
Is that I will become an animal,
In the jungle.