Hipster's Darling

I made grown men quake,

far from home and at the mercy

of the deep blue unknown.

Today their descendants sip lattes,

waxing their mustaches

as they tenderize my tentacles.

Megafauna made micro

to blend into a background.

The background is moving to the fore

and my domain sips away at theirs -

another thing they tried to sanitize, then forget,

until it was part of the wallpaper.

“Release the kraken,” they say.

Release me –

and then I’ll remind you

what happens when things you try to forget

remember themselves.

Song Choice: Children of the Sea by Black Sabbath

This poem was inspired by a prompt given at Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads, Fashion Me Your Words - To A Megafauna