Humans

Forest:
You slash
and burn 
my limbs,
all desparate 
for a piece of my body.
I'm forced to watch 
your reckless
lives unfold 
as I'm shaped 
into all the excess
things you chain 
me for. 
I feel your ink
against my flesh
as you try to capture 
the magnitude of human fallibility
in your novels,
but somehow forget 
to look down at the saw 
clenched between your hands.