An Unending Stripe

focused eyes meet like a deep ancient cave where the stripes almost touch on a forward drive repelling each other like a power surge at the shoulder notice how his coat shines as he grows bolder he borrows strength from a fountain of eternal youth edged on the tips of his white of teeth a docile feline, not at all a beast of death in the mist a heart gift-wrapped in stripes in his chest he preys at the alta of sacrifice and slaughter a last glance at natural beauty before eternal slumber designed by the mysterious scramble of the jungle to forever prowl with an artistic effort the oriental burning through a path with an invisible flame in slow motion pouncing with an effortless equation his ferocious devastation those who fell into an unsuspecting empty well of his hell roped in on an unending stripe where only tigers dwell