Envy Is A Patient Predator Poem by Melanie Emikohe

It stalks from the silence
of its surveillance spot
maintaining learned grace and civility
she keeps decibels of her growl low
but tracks her moves
with focus of a marksman

Once she falters,
loses her balance
or displays any hint
of a glitch or a cataclysmic failure
any needle's eye gap of frailty
presents like a massive sinkhole
out from a furtive base
she strikes bolting at the chance
salivating at the finality of her wish
mad claws, ferocious fangs
of passive-aggressiveness