DoaM 20. The Night is Alive. (1096 hits)
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Submitted by Bigmike (View user info) at 2004-08-31 22:31:44 EDT
The coyotes are singing tonight.
I can hear them, their voices carried across the vally by the midnight wind. I can see them in my minds eye, dancing, jumping, carousing in a circle, their prey surrounded.
A midnight feast.
One jumps in and snags a piece of flesh in its powerful jaws, ripping the meat from the bone. The others watch, careful not to get in the way of the pack leaders solitary feast. They will wait for him because he is their leader; the mightiest member of the pack.
The deer lies lifeless, dead eyes watching as the coyote tears at what is left of its earthly body.
After the Alpha is done, the rest of the pack will fight over what is left over. Each morsel gained, a small treasure guarded with life, if it is so deemed. None of the body goes to waste. Heart, liver, intestine, it is all a well earned meal and a hard won trophy.
They are heartless killers.
They are healers as well. The legend is that they gave man the gift of healing. They communed with man and smoked together, becoming friends and passing gifts. Man accepted these gifts and used them for good. The legend is lost now and we live as adversaries, creating our own separate existence exclusive of each other.
We are both. Healers and destroyers. Healing for good, destroying for survival.
Coyote......Man.....mutually exclusive yet bound by legend.
Tonight they sing. They howl. They beckon to me. Like a siren song I feel compelled to follow. To see the ritual, to join the feast. In my mind, my fantasy, I am on all fours bounding through the brush. Following the call. Relying on instinct to get me where no man has a right to be. To join what no man could imagine joining. To be tested, to be humbled, to be free.
I want to join the pack. Run with the fleet of paw. Taste the raw flesh that brings life. Feel the blood on my lips, the muscle between my teeth, the fur still warm with the kill.
I want to sing as they do. I want to feel the joy of triumph and the desperation of real survival. I want to feel the fear of death and the ecstasy of life. I need the unbridled passion that only base instinct can reveal; that only raw emotion can help surface.
Let me feel your dance and hear your voice. Let me join your ranks and experience your hunt. Let me revel in your joy and wallow in your sin.
The coyotes are singing tonight and the moon is smiling.
The night is alive.
User Reviews
Submitted by sparkle_pink (user info) at 2004-09-05 02:17:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Judas, I'm so busy I have no time to read good posts anymore.
I'm glad I extended my day a few extra minutes for this.
Submitted by LadyPlural (user info) at 2004-09-03 20:22:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I love you. And by 'you,' I mean, 'this series.'
Submitted by Heimdallsman (user info) at 2004-09-03 14:44:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
BigMike, come back! pulseOPEN II needs you!
--HeimdallsMan
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2004-09-03 10:33:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
What's the point? Really. I mean it.
Submitted by AshK (user info) at 2004-09-03 10:24:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Yes (user info) at 2004-09-01 11:44:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
rawr....
Submitted by Falco (user info) at 2004-09-01 10:49:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Didnt you retire?
Submitted by espo (user info) at 2004-09-01 03:34:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
not my favorite DoaM, however it was still very well done and better than 95% of the crap that infests Uber nowadays.
+2
Submitted by PWNstar (user info) at 2004-09-01 03:07:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I love taking something so complex as humans back to their natural instincts
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-09-01 00:30:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I didn't know these were good. I guess I have 19 others to read now. Not tonight.
Submitted by Deadly (user info) at 2004-08-31 23:31:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
'ave it!
Submitted by YELLOW-MAN (user info) at 2004-08-31 23:30:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
EINIGE MALE VERSTEHE Ich Nicht, WARUM SIE SOVIEL Mich SIND SOVIEL IMNEID VON IHNEN ANORDNEN, die SIE SIND, ALSO KÜHL Ich SIE SEINWÜNSCHE SIE LEHRE ALLER LEUTE
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2004-08-31 23:29:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by butterball (user info) at 2004-08-31 23:23:35 (#)
Ranking: 1
When did these titles get abbreviated?
I only abbreviate them when there is something other than "Diary of a Madman" in the title.
Submitted by butterball (user info) at 2004-08-31 23:23:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
When did these titles get abbreviated?
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2004-08-31 23:15:59 EDT (#)
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Geez daking, the title really fits the poem. It's nice work.
Submitted by dakingisdead (user info) at 2004-08-31 23:11:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Nice piece Big Man!
It reminded me of something I wrote ages ago.
The Cry of the Closet Anarchist
Another Sunday morning.
Motor mowers.
Normality.
Insulating and stifling.
How I long to run naked
Baying through the streets
with the hounds of anarchy
in the swift hot pursuit
of creativity on the edge.
Surging in ecstasy.
Rattling the windows
and shaking apathetic
suburbia from it's smug
somnambulism.
Submitted by Genko (user info) at 2004-08-31 23:07:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
The night is alive indeed.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2004-08-31 22:58:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2004-08-31 22:54:42 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2004-08-31 22:45:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
He's fucking insane. He probably doesn't even remember.
One moment he's eating flesh, the next minute he's waking up in his closet wondering how the fuck he got there and why he's feeling so scared, and now he's sitting out in his front lawn at midnight fantasizing about the freedom and visciousness of nature, wishing he could participate on the basest of levels.
If the authorities ever get ahold of his diary, they're going to wonder what took so long to catch him.
He's slowly degenerating I think.
Submitted by Impassive-Digressive (user info) at 2004-08-31 22:43:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Not the best DoaM, but well written nonetheless.
Submitted by sketch9 (user info) at 2004-08-31 22:39:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
loved it.
I assume he got over the voices?
Submitted by hamilton (user info) at 2004-08-31 22:35:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2004-08-31 22:34:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Damn, Mike.