Adrenaline
Adrenaline can save your soul
or your skin.
Adrenaline can cause a fight
or a flight, depending
on the nature of the Beast –
whether it is sweet
or filled with cancerous bile.
Adrenaline can spike your wine
with hormones from
the underworld,
ripping up through the soil,
snatching away all remnants of life.
Adrenaline can create new life,
putting courage into the vein,
pumping up the blood,
chasing away the fear –
driving it into the swine, then
into the sea,
down to the depths, drowning,
smothering, suffocating.