Greatest sharks dripping in and out of eye sockets
Thrashing against rusted panels of brutes
Unequivocally intimidating in my self-made habitat
Hunters marked me by my callousness–I’m it for the season
Charlatans parade on their boats for just my apparition
Breaching to show you my undisputed domination
Beware the Deadliest catch! She bites!
You sought and saw my imbedded scales
Snatch me from freedom’s waters with a love lost bait
Man’s despotism inflicted over my poached body
Your hubris allows one perfect bite on fleshy familiarity
Suffocating in palms of air as you debate torture regiments
Heart of sigmoid behind my eyes near the brain
I think you’re seeing it now
You admired me in the water to doom a quick love
Thoughts of preservation come second to your ego
Feed by my thrill
A seashore rarity but queen of my castle
Drag me atop your pathetic boat to plan my fate
Finning isn’t suitable, taxidermy is your speciality
Bowels in or out?
Pulverized with seasoned mallets my blanched meat
Hollowed down to the least frighten parts
Count my teeth as lesions on your leg
Dumped on the lip while touches play with my skin
Smear my predatory gaze with pocket knives
Malnourished while fish hooks link in my ribs
Display me upside down in a humiliation ritual
Empty mouth dangling open
Curate my appearance to fit an unfulfilled lifestyle
Just let me be fucking cool
My legends outweighed my existence
Valuable as a gilded trophy to sit upon a hunter’s mantle
Have I made you a wanted man?
I was violent it was the right call
If you hadn’t captured me I would have killed you to prove I could
Becoming the prolific sadist that slips inside your skin
Puppeteering you with each nerve ending
Being your prize will cost my vitality
Live without my life, may my body suffice.
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