My New Roommate

Whom did you ask

Before taking up residence with me?

Why do you stare at me so

With those malevolent dark beady eyes,

When I have done nothing

Except mind my own business?

You respect my space,

Very little baggage you have brought in with you.

You seem the strong silent type,

You have resisted all my attempts to get closer to you.

Holding yourself aloof...

Do you not yearn for human contact?

Have you perhaps suffered

Trauma at a very young impressionable age?

For there is a dullness in your eye,

Except, when you stalk your unwitting prey.

There is a sense of sadism in you,

Primal nature, brutality, a pleasure in the hunt.

I find vile and disgusting

That dreadful chomping, as your unlucky meal struggles down your throat.

Unasked you have come

And overstayed your welcome.

I beseech you earnestly - Leave

And take that wiggling tail that you seem to have dropped with you...