The Heart Of The Beast Poem by Rene Diedrich

Is infantile beyond the common reach
It sentimentalizes objectifies
It won't go to sleep

It wants something
Almost nothing gnaws
Away at its thorny feet
Let me remind you to
Put it behind you
Because there is no pleasing
This thing

It wants what it wants
And it wants everything
Listen to its hypnotic thumping
Mesmerized by the beat

You can't soothe it
You can't remove it
With any thing less
Than a dagger
Cut it out like cancer

Rip it out of your chest
Behold it's purple thumping
Crimson pumping
Marinate it in
Feral hatred
And eat it in tiny bites
The next day.