The Corpulently Cunning Creature

• Kailah Rushton, Grade 9, Freshwater Christian College
• Poetry
• 2016

Excellence Award in the 'Top Secret 2016' competition

An ominously intended creature,
That stares through guileful eyes,
Monitoring every movement,
Its piercing fangs glistening with deathly venom,
Ready to slay with a single strike,
The cold-blooded creature’s structure,
As corpulent and gloomy and solid
As burnt coal,
Its contorted and twisted legs,
Evolve into austere formations,
That holds its spherical abdomen,
It slyly tip-toes towards me,
With malicious thoughts and intentions,
The web of threads,
That holds a beast so fine and petite,
Yet so strong and unyielding,
A soldiering beast,
Equipped with the beguiling armour of beauty and charm.