This short poem was in my head when I woke one night. I have since only changed one word and wrote it out in a single, quick pass. Strange how something like that can happen. Hardly great poetry, mind you!
Wolves
There. Just there. In the distance.
There is a wolf calling. I think it is a wolf.
Some long distant compatriot, trying to awaken me.
I fear it has been too long. I seldom feel the cold.
Generations led to this, to question and not to obey.
I am trapped in a cage, numbed, desensitised.
Native Americans, it is claimed, used alcohol.
Humbling the ancient inside, shutting it in,
Drowning out the wolves trying to awaken us all.