The poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub today was to write about the WILD. My first thought was of a song by Johnny Cash called “The Beast in Me” (see video below). I thought of the line in that song, “God help the beast in me.” There is a little of the beast in all of us, and we need God to tame that beast, as we have no power to overcome the beast on our own.
Taming the Wild
The wild in me
I am powerless to tame
It would consume and
Obliterate my name
I walk the dark valley
of death in my heart
If I walk all alone
it will tear me apart
To be like You
is impossible to see
Instead I must die
and You live in me
I’ll not know tameness
nor escape from this hell
unless the divine
in my heart does dwell