One Breath in the Wilderness

A barbed wire fence

And its ferns; best of friends!

Mate a

Fish hook

With the mouth of

A fish,

What a death! –With no scream!

Like me,

In the company

Of the sea,

Scares... me... to... pieces.

The wildest of beasts

Cannot ......breathe

Beneath the-

No task-at-hand

Can

Stand in the

Ocean.

I flee from the sea,

Retreat to my kingdom.

I’m the prince of the trees,

Chief of the jungle.

Not a mountain

Can make me bow,

No

Wind

Will

Bend

My

Crown.

I'll trade life

And a scream from the deep,

For a death and one breath

In the wilderness.