Allison+Moore+and+Jessica+Debski

__The Wolf Boy’s Tale __

High up in the mountains he did seek for

someone he was longing to meet. Or

he was longing for his one missing piece,

part of him never felt fully at ease.

Wandering through the wilderness he hoped

finding this person would keep him afloat.

Not a very easy time did he have,

because he was raised merely as a halve

to part of a family of wild beasts.

He grew up many years knowing to feast

on the juicy flesh of whatever came

across their tracks. It was not a fun game,

but a means of survival for the pack.

On top his brother he would ride bareback

in order to run faster and keep up.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He knew not of how he was not a pup,

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">since birth he had been nurtured to think that

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">he was one of the wolves when mom gave a pat.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">As day turned to night time and time again

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">the boy began to feel that the den

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">was not where he did belong and so he

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">should seek out to find who he was to be.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">With no mirrors and not a reflection,

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">he could only see his introspection,

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">not what physical traits set him apart

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">from the other wolves that held mom’s heart,

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">until one day when the oldest pup teased[1]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">that he’s just a boy and never could please

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">the pack or their mother[2] for that matter

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">because he was the runt, not the fatter.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He wept and wept[3] until the break of dawn

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">when he ran out of the den to the lawn.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Searching for answers he went to town

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">and looked around but no one could be found.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">A sweet old witch came across the young lad

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">and gave him spicy beef soup[4] to be had.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He spit it onto her face in disgust

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">asking why she fed him something unjust.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He only ate flesh, he explained to her

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">but could not figure why he had no fur

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">his events prior to their encounter,

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">she said that she had something to counter-

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">act what his life had become after birth

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">expressing that he was not put on Earth

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">to be the weak link in a small wolf clan,

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">but that he was put here to be a man.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Over to her cabinet she went to

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">find potions that would make the boy a true

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">boy. After mixing and brewing for hours

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">she finally could cure[5] all his cowers.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Into a deep sleep he fell and when he

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">awoke he had noticed that she did flee

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">to where he would never know but he had

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">her to thank for normal life and be glad

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">that he could function in the world as one

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">fine young citizen that he had become.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He felt reborn like the son of Mary[6],

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">not sure of anything he was wary

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">of the town and the people who stayed

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">in it. For hours he wandered very strayed.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">But as time wore on, something became wrong.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">For the wolf boy the potion was not strong.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The effects eventually wore off,

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">he became ill with a horrendous cough.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">His cravings came back rapidly and quick

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">and sharp, making him sick, wanting a lick[7].

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He was not craving flesh, but some wolf meat.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">So, from the town the wolf boy did retreat

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">and back to the mountains he did return,

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">for he needed to go back and relearn.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He was starving and could not handle it.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Starving for food and revenge that was lit,

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">to teach his brothers a lesson that they

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">were wrong and to rest their thoughts as they may.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The morning soon came, with a sleepless night

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">ready to encounter a brothers fight.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He had to indulge in his brothers flesh

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">in the morning, so he wrapped up in mesh.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The mesh was the only thing he could find.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">When he left the town he didn't look behind.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He was not ungrateful[8] of the witch,

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">but because of her, he sleeps in a ditch.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Thoughts of wolf meat completely took over.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He was hallucinating, but sober.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">His journey to his home was not long now.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He had to eat soon, but did not know how.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Used to human flesh not wolf meat, was he.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Finding his brothers is right now key.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He continued to walk for a mile,

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">prepared to put his brothers in a pile.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">From the distance he could see his old den.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He smelt the wolf sent from far away. When

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">his brothers saw him they laughed and they stared.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">They did not accept him, they hadn’t cared.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Temptation took over, he had to eat.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Chomped[9] into their bones, he couldn’t be beat.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He was like a monster[10], couldn’t be stopped.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">All his horrible deeds couldn’t be dropped,

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">couldn’t be understood, couldn’t be believed[11].

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Wolf boy just ate his brothers, without grief.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">________________

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[1] Ethos

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[2] Pathos

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[3] Repetition

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[4] Gustatory Sense

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[5] Alliteration

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[6] Allusion

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[7] Polysyndeton

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[8] Litote

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[9] Onomatopoeia

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[10] Simile

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[11] Asyndeton