You want to tame me <br />This wild beast <br />In the jungle <br />Intractable <br /> <br />Do you say <br />You want to soften me <br />To harness me <br />To control me <br />To make me useful <br />To cultivate me <br />As one kind of <br />A plant or a docile <br />Kind of an animal? <br />Domesticated and <br />Submissive? <br />Will you make me <br />Savageless? <br />Deprived of zest <br />And spiritless? <br />Serviceable shall <br />I be to you, <br />Harmless and <br />Rendered useful <br />For any master? <br /> <br />Tame me, <br />You cannot <br />I am born a lion <br />And I shall never <br />Be as tame as your <br />House cat, <br /> <br />I live in the wild <br />Now and you have <br />Known me by the <br />Same name when <br />We first see each <br />Other eye to eye <br /> <br />On the roof, I have <br />Assumed the <br />Fierceness of the <br />Mockingbird, and <br />No one has stopped <br />Me mimicking all <br />Of you- shy and coy, <br />Pusillanimous, gentle, <br />And so manageable <br /> <br />Insipid and God forbid, <br />Dullish and insipid<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-you-will-tame-me/
