Tigress

I have a ravenous tiger within me
which always waits for me
and I for her,
I hate her and she hates me, and she wants to kill me
but i hope that she will become friendly
with time.

She has her teeth on my heart, her claws on my mind
and for my own sake
I fight for her
And she makes me hate all the good things in this world
so that i can sing to her with the deepest of sorrows.

She forces me to cross mountains, valleys and chasms
in order to embrace her
in the wildest of dances,
And when, at cold nights, she remembers her cages
she lends me her pelt
to wear.

And when sometimes we lie drunk,
almost in peace,
so that each one can sleep,
this still silence is like the one before the storm,
like the final moment
before she attacks.

- Chainides / Psarantonis

(what a joy for the one who tamed her)