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# The Beast in Me
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/the-beast-in-me/
- Published: 2020-08-15T22:07:05.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:25:45.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Philosophy and Truth, #Quarter Crazy Marathon 2020 Q3, #Third Party Material, #13

Come to me, you wild beast,  
You whirling storm of beauty  
Battered, scarred, bruised and teased  
You grew beyond majesty  
  
Wide, cold skies weep for you  
In pain, relief and sorrow  
Rage rumbles, deep and true  
No gods will reign tomorrow  
  
Nor hold you trapped in caves  
Where man’s faithless, dank pride grips  
Where the ceaseless lie staves  
Off a small apocalypse  
  
Come, fly free, fly stronger  
You’ve broken stone and cruel fate  
Breed your courage ever longer  
Your kind, for you, yet await  
  
  
[Quarter Crazy Marathon ](https://www.facebook.com/qtrcrazy)Quarter 3 - 2020  
Prompt 6 - 2pm EST  
  
*Prompt #6: Picture Prompt*