Will This Bite?

Dassika Gilkey

squeezing like an angry snake — They say pent up desire can turn to anger.

I missed your eyes and how they’d stare at me, lingering after a quiet convo we just had, darting after I said something that made your heart rise a bit, dancing after we had maybe just too much to drink

You didn’t really give me this ring — I just held onto it hoping that you wouldn’t ask for it back, hoping I’ll have some of you with me, hoping that part of us is still wrapped around just waiting to be unraveled into something more.

Will this bite?

Maybe I guess we’ll never truly know.

My name is Dassika and I’m a Theatre Performance major with minors in Studio Art and Film Studies.

FM as Music Director and at Brushing as Co-Designer. Normally I express my art through visual forms, like photography or painting, but I’ve chosen to write a poem to submit for the 50th Edition because I was inspired by a writer I know. This piece explores feelings of falling for someone, something I feel happens a little too easy for me. I love using metaphors of animals to walk through my stories – here I follow the idea of a snake.