You explain <br />in deadly earnest <br /> <br />how the talons <br />of a bird of prey works <br /> <br />that once locked into <br />whatever it attacks <br /> <br />the talons have to meet <br />and touch before <br />they can be released <br /> <br />so you have to let them sink through <br />before attempting escape <br /> <br />from its deadly mechanism. <br /> <br />The scar on your left hand <br />bears witness. <br /> <br />My mind listens <br />to such explanations <br /> <br />and often bears the pain <br />of your heartless actions <br /> <br />that clutch and claw and <br />sink in <br /> <br />only to release again. <br /> <br />The scars on my mind <br />bearing witness.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/brute-beauty/
