Beast Of Prey Poem by John Sensele

Beast of prey brutalised his home
Where by his own volition he sired children
For whom he felt neither attachment nor love.
Instead, beast of prey abused substances
That chewed into his psyche's fabric and mentality
Until the beast developed full blown megalomania.

Spaced out and rendered inept by megalomania
Beast of prey feasted on terrorising his home
Where he cultured a mundane mentality
That visited double inconvenience on children
Through rantings and beatings blown akimbo in psychedelic substances
Whose philosophy and modus operandi negated the existence of love.

Imbued with a fountain of love
Beast's family strove to neutralise megalomania
Whose origins traced back to noxious substances
Which fought from within his bloodstream to turn his home
Into a concentration camp in which children
Played second fiddle in the wake of beast's rustic mentality.

Beast's family consulted head shrinkers to determine whether his mentality
Could revert from its atavistic state if love
Showered daily and hourly in a conducive setting fed by children
Who sympathised and empathised with beast's megalomania
For the sake of peace, harmony and stability in his home
Might divorce the grip of mind-changing substances.

Drug enforcers and rehabilitation sessions removed substances
From beast's body and set out to restore his mentality
To its prior state where it nurtured his home,
Nourished and furnished enough love
Devoid of pretensions, perversions and megalomania
And which begot and befriended his beloved children.

Beast's inner circle, acquaintances, wife and children
Prayed hard and managed to break the hold substances
Had on beast of prey and proclivities to feed megalomania
Pollution and dilution of mentality
To restore the love
Beast of prey once showered on his happy home.

Delightfully, beast's children nourished his renewed mentality
That abhorred substances, but drew him into the vortex of love
In which his family maimed megalomania and stabilised his home.