I saw a movie tonight
about a boy lost at sea
for 30 days, 60 days,
something monstrous.
He shared his raft
with a Bengali tiger,
an animal that wanted
to kill and eat him.
That animal--his
needing it to live,
needing not to be
killed by it--kept
him alive.
The animal left him
on dry land without
saying goodbye.
It walked into the jungle,
it did not turn around.
That animal, was
not one of us.
He thinks about it,
that love, when
he pours his cereal.
He survived.
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