Dawn breaking on the moment where the chase becomes the hunt
Unleash the heart hounds, sniffing out your love.
Herein this instant I un-clip their leashes,
never again shall our interactions consist of giddy circling around large tree trunks.
Past are the times of our war cries being words no scarier than
"Tag you're it".
That innocence is over and the battle has begun.
The scent of my prey on my brain, you become a coveted trophy.
Nameless bounty.
I've no practical use for this love I subject to my mission statement,
"search and destroy".
If forced to hunt your affections, once captured they'll change hands two times.
First to the taxidermist, second the mounter.
And you'll join the other prized heads of the glorious who were once deer.
What purpose could a beast as glorious as you serve other than to rain regality upon the wilderness?
It'd be a shame to steal your presence from the wild, but you must understand this killer instinct.
Pursuit made possible by the bantering of butterflies in my stomach singing your praises.
Caterpillars crawling through my capillaries munching away the mean until only the sweet can reach the surface.
But alas the ulcers begin erupting. Going Vesuvius upon this colored wing Pompeii.
sizzling the brilliant black and orange Monarch majesty.
The singing ceases and all I can hear is the whistle tone cries of insect devastation.
Now running with a tummy full of molten butterfly corpses,
I my rifle and button my flannel shirt.
It's open season on the object of my affection.
This is what's to be and I ever fear the day.